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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 8.
Published in final edited form as: Inhal Toxicol. 2012 Aug;24(9):570–579. doi: 10.3109/08958378.2012.697926

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and blood parameters of inflammation in the control and silica-exposed rats. Rats were exposed to crystalline silica or air and total number of alveolar macrophages (AMs) (A) and polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) (B) and concentration of MCP-1(C) were determined in the BALF as described in the text. Number of neutrophils (D) in the blood of the rats was also determined. Values represent mean ± SE of eight rats per group. *Statistically significant (p < 0.05) compared to the control rats.