Macrophage Differentiation from Monocytes Is Influenced by the Lipid Oxidation Degree of Low Density Lipoprotein

Figure 3

Production of cytokines and chemokines in response to oxLDL. THP-1 cells were pretreated with differentially oxidized LDL (50 μg/mL) for 24, 48, or 96 h and treated with LPS (100 ng/mL) for 18 h. Culture supernatants were harvested and the levels of TNF-, IL-12p40, IL-6, and MCP-1 were measured by ELISA. Data represent means ± S.E. of three independent experiments. One-way ANOVA analysis was used to determine significance (, , and ).

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