Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines Release in Mice Injected with Crotalus durissus terrificus Venom
Figure 5
Mediators secretion. Groups
of BALB/c female mice with 13–15 g were i.p. injected with 0.5, or, 1 and/or 2
of Cdt, after 2 hours, the animals were bled and the levels of
cytokines and NO present in the serum were determined as described in materials
and methods (see Section 2). Each point represents the mean value of the
results obtained from two independent experiments conducted with five to fifteen
animals each. Statistical differences between the injections were marked with
asterisk ().
