Fig. 1From: Immobilization of Lactobacillus plantarum NCIMB 8826 ameliorates Citrobacter rodentium induced lesions and enhances the gut inflammatory response in C57BL/6 weanling miceExperimental design of the animal study. Upper rectangular boxes indicate breeding of C57BL/6 mice from Charles River (Charles River Laboratories, Wilmington, MA) bred for 36 weanling pups. The round circles indicate the different treatments with the number of weanling mice used in each group. The lower rectangular boxes indicate the diet treatment each group received, and the arrows are the days when mice were infected with Citrobacter rodentium and euthanized, respectively. C. rodentium (100 μL of 109 Log CFU/ml) was administered through oral gavage (on day 20 after birth) with the exception of the negative control. All mice groups were fed with the weanimix infant cereal diet 5 days prior to their treatment diet to ensure acclimatization. LP = Lactobacillus plantarum NCIMB 8826 (ATCC BAA-793); CR = Citrobacter rodentium strain DBS 100 (ATCC 51459); ID = Infection Day; PI = Post-infection DayBack to article page