Representative images (3 individual patients) of immunohistochemically stained Tn antigen (brown) and nuclei stained with hematoxylin (left) and their percentage (right) in the colon tissue of diverticulitis (control, unaffected region) and patients with UC (affected region) (50 m). (D) comprise 5 tissue samples in each group. Data are presented as mean ± SEM in the graphs.*p< 0.05 and**p< 0.01 (Mann-Whitney test, two-tailed, Students t test in D).