Fig. 4.

Antiviral activities of L. gasseri LGV03 in human ectocervical Ect1/E6E7 cells. After Ect1/E6E7 cells were treated with L. gasseri LGV03 and Poly (I:C), the expression of IFN-α, IFN-βIL-6, MCP-1, IL-8, and IL-1β were analyzed by RT-PCR. Cells treated with either Poly (I:C) or medium alone were used as positive and negative controls, respectively. The positive control was used for comparison of L. gasseri LGV03 treated groups. The mean differences among the different superscript letters (a, b, C) were significant at 0.05 level. The results are expressed as mean ± SE and represent data from three independent experiments (n = 3 in each experiment).