The homogenate tissue levels of inflammatory mediators, including TNF-α, IL-6, IL-4 and IL-10, were measured using a Milliplex MAP Rat Cytokine/Chemokine magnetic bead immunoassay kit (Millipore Corporation, Billerica, MA)[11 (link)]. The values were read with a MAGPIX Luminex xMAP instrument (Luminex Corp, Austin, TX) and analyzed with the MILLIPLEX Analysis software version 3 (Millipore Corporation, Billerica, MA)[11 (link)]. Blood samples (5 mL) were collected for centrifugation at 3000 rpm for 7 min at low temperature, and then, the supernatants were obtained for the alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST) detection with an Automatic Biochemical Analyzer (AU5400, SIEMENS, Munich, Germany).