Figure 10From: Oral administration of Lactobacillus brevis 23017 combined with ellagic acid attenuates intestinal inflammatory injury caused by Eimeria infection by activating the Nrf2/HO-1 antioxidant pathwayCaecal lesion scores of the chickens in different groups in Experiments 1 and 2 post-challenge with E. tenella. At 7 days post-challenge, caecal samples from each group of chickens (n = 7) in Experiments 1 and 2 were harvested for gut lesion scoring based on the method described by Johnson and Reid [19]. Data are shown as the mean ± SD. ***p < 0.001.Back to article page