Fig 9. Treatment of allergic mice with curcumin inhibits the activation of NF-κB.

(A) Mice were fed with OVA and curcumin and sacrificed as depicted in Fig 1C. Immunohistochemistry on jejunal sections was performed as described in Materials and Methods. Phospho-relA staining (brown) in jejunal tissue is shown. Phospho-relA-positive mast cells as assessed by morphologic analysis are depicted by red arrows. (B) BMMCs were cultured with or without DNP-IgE and 30 μM curcumin in DMSO and activated in the presence of antigen 24 hours later. 12 hours later, protein was extracted from whole cell lysates and Western blot was performed. Data are representative of three experiments. (C) Quantification of the Western Blot data from B is shown.