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. 2007 Sep;122(1):80–89. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2007.02615.x

Figure 9.

Figure 9

The carrier strain of S. aureus down-regulates HBD-3 from NEC. NEC layers were cultured at the air–liquid interphase in an antibiotic-free medium and inoculated with 57 ± 13 (mean ± SEM) bacteria/well for a period of up to 20 hr. HBD-3 peptide from NEC was assessed by ELISA, for both the cells (a) and the supernatant (b). The organisms used were S. aureus D30 (SA D30), the carrier strain; S. aureus 930918 (SA 930918), the non-carrier strain; and S. epidermidis (SE), the control strain. The results represent means ± SEM of three to five separate experiments.