Research Article

Mast Cell Subsets and Their Functional Modulation by the Acanthocheilonema viteae Product ES-62

Table 1

Differential functional responses of mast cell subsets.

PDMCMucosal-type BMMCCTMC
BasalFc RILPSP/IBasalFc RILPSP/IBasalFc RILPSP/I

Degranulation (%)4.48 ± 0.5633.24 ± 4.07 2.87 ± 1.47 55.34 ± 4.24 7.46 ± 1.1017.34 ± 2.19 2.87 ± 1.78 31.97 ± 3.78 3.95 ± 1.0217.3 ± 2.902.173 ± 0.4825.29 ± 4.62

PGD2 (pg/mL)1804 ± 44 1907 ± 55 3257 ± 3384711 ± 264 4509 ± 156 2888 ± 3703229 ± 3334764 ± 153

IL-6 (pg/mL)70 ± 27 67 ± 32 81.33 ± 7 408 ± 61 37.4 ± 14.7560 ± 96 2557 ± 696 21976 ± 658987 ± 23 114 ± 19 812 ± 217

IL-13 (pg/mL)7.81 ± 1.5217.91 ± 2.84 25.91 ± 4.43 248 ± 20 5.88 ± 0.86366 ± 88 338 ± 116 1578 ± 111 3.94 ± 2.9418.5 ± 0.4544.7 ± 1.1

MCP-1 (pg/mL)457 ± 73 387 ± 84616 ± 109 102 ± 19504 ± 2121703 ± 393 862 ± 296 396 ± 581410 ± 226511 ± 76

TNF 15.25 ± 2.4815.57 ± 2.91 19.62 ± 3.38 32.33 ± 2.94 5.02 ± 2.12506 ± 159 150 ± 38 3199 ± 916 1.42 ± 0.191.41 ± 0.3415.62 ± 1.61

Data are presented as the mean values ± SEM where n = number of independent experiments or mean values ± SD of triplicate samples in the case where data from a single experiment are presented.