Fig 3. Reduced cytokine secretion in the lungs of htMSC and/or LLLT treated animals.

COPD animals were submitted to therapeutic protocols as described in materials and methods. Further, all animals were euthanized and BAL obtained for cytokine detection by the ELISA method for A)TNF-α, B)IL-6 C)IL-1β D)IFN-γ E) IL-10 and F)KC. Data representative of three independent experiments. n = 5–8 animals per group. One-way ANOVA.