Fig. 6.

Cytometric bead array showing the concentrations of inflammatory cytokines such as (a) IL-1β, (b) IL-8, and (c) IL-10 released from the THP-1 derived M0 macrophages treated with solid and porous GMs and its extract. Data are represented as mean ± standard deviation of three independent experiments with triplicates and the statistical significance between the groups and THP-1 control was denoted by asterisks with *, **, *** and **** symbolized the p values < 0.05, 0.01, 0.001 and 0.0001 respectively.