Effect of bifidobacterium on defensin-5 expression in intestinal injury of preweaning rats

Table 3 Relative expression levels of defensin-5 mRNA at different time points in different groups of rats (mean ± SD)

	2 h	6 h	12 h	24 h	72 h
Group C	0.631 ± 0.146	0.642 ± 0.154	0.664 ± 0.128	0.607 ± 0.132	0.618 ± 0.142
Group E	0.953 ± 0.238a	0.972 ± 0.213a	0.858 ± 0.198a	0.758 ± 0.160	0.780 ± 0.170
Group T	0.824 ± 0.158c	0.742 ± 0.158e	0.590 ± 0.167e	0.487 ± 0.149e	0.681 ± 0.151

^aP < 0.05 vs group C;

^cP < 0.05 vs group C;

^eP < 0.05 vs group E.