Intestinal inflammation data by treatment.

Mean colon histological injury score and mean intestinal area for each strain at each time point, showing signs of inflammation for the Il10−/− mice at 12 weeks of age.
*denotes a mean that is significantly (P<0.05) different for Il10−/− mice compared to C57BL/6J mice at 12 weeks of age. Predicted means for colon histological injury score were obtained from unbalanced ANOVA analysis performed on (log+0.05)-transformed data in GenStat v11, then predicted means were back-transformed to give the data presented here.
#Due to sampling time pressure, data was obtained for most mice at the 12-week sampling time, but only three for each strain at the 6-week sampling time. Observations of the appearance of the intestine were also recorded at sampling as another indicator of the degree and location of intestinal inflammation in each mouse.