Figure 3.
(A) The effects of temperature, ethanol and minocycline on phagocytosis in BV-2 cells. (B) The effect of UDP, ATP, IFN-γ, LPS and dexamethasone (DEX) on phagocytosis. BV-2 cells (5 × 105 cells per well) were loaded with fluorescent latex beads (0.5 μL·mL−1) for 2 h then incubated at 4 or 37°C with or without ethanol. The figure represents means ± SEM of triplicate determinations from three independent experiments, presented as a percentage of control values. Data were analysed using one-way anova, followed by post hoc Dunnett's test; *P < 0.05 ethanol versus control; ***P < 0.001 UDP versus control; **P < 0.01 DEX versus control; *P < 0.05 IFN, LPS versus control.