Fig. 2.

Inverted light micrographs of rat peritoneal mast cell (RPMC, arrows). (A) The normal RPMC in HEPES-Tyrode buffered solution. (B) The Degranulated RPMC after the addition of compound 48/80. (C) The RPMCs observed within 10 minutes after the addition of curcumin (50 µM) show similar findings as seen in Fig. 2A. (D) The RPMCs pretreated with curcumin observed within 10 minutes after the addition of compound 48/80, show similar findings as seen in Fig. 2C. Bars=10 µm.