Table 1.

Effect of Stx2 and Ru486 on total leucocyte and PMN count.

	48 h post treatment		72 h post treatment
Treatments	Leucocytes (cells/l) (%)	PMN (cells/l) (%)	Leucocytes (cells/l) (%)	PMN (cells/l) (%)
Saline	6·1 ± 2 (100%)	1·6 ± 0·9 (26%)	5·4 ± 0·5 (100%)	1·1 ± 0·15 (14%)
Stx2	10·9 ± 0·2 (100%)*	4·6 ± 0·4 *	7·3 ± 0·3 (100%)*	3·3 ± 0·2 (48%)*
Stx2+Ru486	11·3 ± 0·8 (100%)*	5·9 ± 0·35 (52%)*‡	6·5 ± 0·8 (100%)**†	3·2 ± 0·5 (48%)*†
Ru486	9·7 ± 0·4 (100%)*	4·9 ± 0·21 (50%)*	4·0 ± 0·6 (100%)**	0·9 ± 0·3 (12%)

Values are shown as media ± SEM. (%) is % of the total.

^*P < 0·001 and

^**P < 0·05 compared with saline;

^†P < 0·001 compared with Ru486;

^‡P < 0·05 compared with Stx2 and Ru486 treatment.