Table 2.

Cytokine production in response to EPS by peritoneal macrophages

	TNF-α*	IL-6*	IL-10*	IL-12p40*
Thio-induced macrophages	3587 ± 547	21302 ± 1081	101 ± 37	2057 ± 217
Oil-induced macrophages	318 ± 74	6135 ± 1526	31 ± 8	869 ± 207

Cytokines were analysed by ELISA in supernatants collected from 24 h cultures of oil-induced or thioglycollate-induced peritoneal macrophages (5 × 10⁵ per well) stimulated with exopolysaccharides (EPS) at concentration of 30 μg/ml. Data are mean ± SEM values of three independent experiments.

^*Level of cytokines is expressed in pg/ml.