Somatostatin Negatively Regulates Parasite Burden and Granulomatous Responses in Cysticercosis
Figure 1
Effect of somatostatin deficiency on parasite load. Representative photographs of infected mice, WT (left side) and SOM−/− (right side), are shown in the top panels following laparotomy to reveal intraperitoneal cysts. Representative photographs of cysts harvested from the peritoneal cavity are shown for each mouse in the middle panels. The bottom panel shows mean ± SD of the number of cysts harvested from WT mice () and SOM−/− (); the asterisk () indicates that the cyst numbers were different ().
