Figure 6.

Reduced circulating neutrophils during casein-induced acute-phase response. Mean (± SEM) of (a) circulating and (b) peritoneal neutrophils directly before intraperitoneal infection with Enterococcus faecium (T = 0) and 2 and 48 hr thereafter. Mice were inoculated peritoneally with E. faecium 24 hr after injection of casein (solid bars) or NaHCO₃ (open bars). Peritoneal levels of neutrophil attracting chemokines (c) cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant (KC) and (d) macrophage inflammatory protein-2 (MIP-2) were measured 2 hr post-infection. n = 5 mice per group for uninfected control mice (T = 0) and n = 8 mice per group for infected mice *P< 0·05, ***P< 0·001.