Segments of distal ileum (1 cm of intestine withdrawn above the junction with the caecum) were harvested from all rats and fixed in 10% neutral-buffered formalin for 24 h, dehydrated and embedded in paraffin. The paraffin-embedded tissue sections were cut (3 μm thickness) and mounted on adhesive microscope slides. The sections were deparaffinized in xylene and rehydrated with decreasing concentrations of ethanol (100%, 95% and 70%) and distilled water. Antigen retrieval was performed in 0.01 M sodium citrate buffer with 0.05% Tween 20 (pH 6.0), using a water bath at 98 °C for 10 min and blocked in 3% H
2O
2 in PBS. After that, sections were incubated with a blocking solution (
Rodent Block M, RBM961G, Biocare Medical, UK) for 30 minutes and then incubated overnight at 4 °C with anti-GLP-1 primary antibody: mouse monoclonal,
ab26278; Abcam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 1:1500. Subsequently, sections were incubated with secondary antibody at RT for 30 min: goat anti-mouse,
ab97021; Abcam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 1:200. Then, 30-minute ABC complex incubation was carried out (Vector A and B, Vectastain, Vector Labs, Peterborough, UK). Finally, the sections were treated with diaminobenzidine tetrahydrochloride (DAB) substrate kit (
ab64238, Abcam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands). All sections were stained with H&E.
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