Research Article

Trypanosoma cruzi Mexican Strains Differentially Modulate Surface Markers and Cytokine Production in Bone Marrow-Derived Dendritic Cells from C57BL/6 and BALB/c Mice

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Trypanosoma cruzi infectivity in murine BMDCs from BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice. BMDCs with or without LPS stimulation (5 μg/mL) were incubated for 18 h with different T. cruzi strains (MOI 2 : 1) and stained with DAPI. (a) and (d) show the percentage of infected cells; in (b) and (e) the number of parasites per 100 cells and in (c) and (f) the ratio of parasites per infected cell are shown. (g) Representative images of BMDCs infected with T. cruzi after stimulation with LPS (5 μg/mL) and stained with DAPI. Statistical analysis, when applicable, was performed with the Kruskal-Wallis test with Dunn’s posttest, where .
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