Hydrogen-rich water protects against inflammatory bowel disease in mice by inhibiting endoplasmic reticulum stress and promoting heme oxygenase-1 expression

Figure 6 Hydrogen-rich water inhibits endoplasmic reticulum stress in DSS-induced inflammatory bowel disease. On the 7^th d after inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) modeling, the colon tissues were harvested to evaluate the endoplasmic reticulum stress. Western blot analysis was conducted to evaluate the protein contents of p-eIF2α, ATF4, XBP1s and CHOP. β-actin was used as an internal control. n = 6, mean ± SEM, ^aP < 0.05 vs control group; ^bP < 0.05 vs dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) group. HRW: Hydrogen-rich water.