However, in the intestine, significant changes can be observed for all genes (Figures 8E–G), with a downregulation of both fpn1 and slc11a2alpha, in the earlier and late days of infection, respectively, and an up regulation of fth. Lastly, in infected+hamp2 animals, patterns of gene expression in both the liver and intestine were similar to the ones observed for infected animals, with one notable exception: hamp2 levels in the liver still peaked at day 1 post-infection but decreased more rapidly at day 2 (around 5 times lower than infected and infected+hamp1) (Figures 8B). This evidence concerns the gene SLC40A1 and infection.