Secretory Leukoprotease Inhibitor: A Native Antimicrobial Protein in the Innate Immune Response in a Rat Model of S. aureus Keratitis

Figure 2

Representative Western blots of SLPI expression of supernatant samples from the S. aureus, the epithelial defect, and control groups of rat corneas.

(a) Lanes 1-2 represent control corneas; lanes 3-4 and 6-7 show a high level of expression of SLPI in the S. aureus keratitis group. Lane 5 is a molecular weight marker at 12 kDa

(b) Lanes 1–3 represent control corneas, and lanes 5–7 are the epithelial defect group. Lane 4 is the molecular weight marker. Bands are representative of duplicate experiments with similar results