Figure 1.
N. brasiliensis infection induced changes in the mRNA expressions of macrophage molecular markers. Mice were inoculated subcutaneously with 500 N. brasiliensis (Nb) infective third stage larvae or treated with vehicle (VEH), and studied 9 days later. Intestinal strips were taken from the mice for total RNA extraction. Real-time quantitative PCR was performed to measure the mRNA expression. The fold increases were relative to the individual vehicle groups (VEH) after normalization to 18s rRNA. * p<0.05, **p<0.01 compared with the respective WT-VEH (n≥5 for each group).
