Fig. 4.

Metabolic activity of lymphocytes from SJL (▪) and C57BL/6 (□) mice induced by adipocyte supernatants incubated with conditioned media (CM) from lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-, peptidoglycan (PEP)- and lactobacilli-treated macrophages. Macrophages were exposed for 24 h to bacterial extracts and adipocytes were incubated with macrophage supernatants for 24 h. Metabolic activity of lymphocytes treated with adipocyte supernatants was determined by the mitochondrial dehydrogenase activity (MTS/PMS) test. Experiments were conducted in triplicate. These results are representative of three similar experiments. *P ≤ 0·05; **P ≤ 0·01.