Synbiotics administration leads to attenuated mucosal inflammatory neutrophil infiltration and increased hematocrit in experimental ulcerative colitis

Ioannis Varnalidis ¹, Orestis Ioannidis ², Athina Papadopoulou ¹, Theophilos Poutahidis ³, Ioannis Taitzoglou ⁴, Manousos G. Pramateftakis ², Efstathios Kotidis ², Stamatis Angelopoulos ², Dimitrios Botsios ⁵, Konstantinos Tsalis ²

¹ Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; ² Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; ³ Laboratory of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; ⁴ Laboratory of Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; ⁵ 1Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece