Research Article

Cytokine Regulation from Human Peripheral Blood Leukocytes Cultured In Vitro with Silver Doped Bioactive Glasses Microparticles

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PMN viability in presence of BG (A-L) and BGAg (M-Z). Demonstrative images of Live/Deadâ„¢ assay captured by 40x objective (a). The bright field shows cell morphology, GFP shows live cells green stained by calcein, and RFP shows dead cells stained by ethidium homodimer. For growth and death controls, cells were incubated, respectively, with, medium alone or 80% methanol. (b) Percentage of viable PMNs were counted on three aleatory fields. PMNs incubated with different concentrations of BG and BGAg have a similar number of viable cells compared to growth control. Results were expressed as median with 95% CI ( compared to growth control).

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