Figure 4
From: IL-4/IL-13 independent goblet cell hyperplasia in experimental helminth infections
Goblet cell hyperplasia in the colon during S. mansoni infection. (A) Tissue egg content of the colon from S. mansoni infected BALB/c (solid bar), IL-4Rα-/- (open bar) and IL-4/IL-13-/- (gray bar) mice at 8 weeks PI. Data are pooled from 2 to 4 individual experiments. Data are means of these experiments ± SEM. (B) Quantification of goblet cell number per villus in colon of naïve mice and 8 weeks PI from BALB/c (solid bar), IL-4Rα-/- (open bar) and IL-4/IL-13-/- (gray bar) mice. Data representative of three experiments are shown. * P < 0.05 (significantly different from naïve mice). (C) Photomicrograph of colon from BALB/c, IL-4Rα-/- and IL-4/IL-13-/-. Representative pictures of colon sections are shown from both naïve (i) and S. mansoni infected mice at 8 weeks PI (ii). Sections were stained with PAS to identify goblet cells. 100× magnification