Research Article

Intrauterine Malnutrition Reduced Long Leptin Receptor Isoform Expression and Proinflammatory Cytokine Production in Male Rat Pulmonary Endothelial Cells Stimulated by Lipopolysaccharide

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Effect of leptin on LPS-induced cytokine secretion into the supernatants of pulmonary endothelial cells. (a) Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and (b) interleukin-6 (IL-6) were quantified in the supernatants of pulmonary endothelial cells 6 h after stimulus with LPS and/or leptin by multiplex assays as described in Materials and Methods. Cells were obtained from 8 male Wistar rats selected randomly from 6 different litters per group. The results are presented as the means ± SEM, .
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