The disease-alleviating effects of exogenous NAP were also effective on microscopic level given that mice were suffering from less severe C. jejuni induced colonic apoptosis, which was also the case when assessing numbers of cleaved caspase-3+ epithelial cell in the ileum and colon of mice suffering from acute T. gondii induced ileitis [38] or acute DSS colitis [39], respectively. This evidence concerns the gene CASP3 and Crohn ileitis.