Table 2.

Effects of Arginine on protein expression of cytokines in LPS-treated BMECs.

	Con (DMEM/F12 medium)	Arg (100 µg/mL)	LPS (10 µg/mL)	Arg + LPS (100 µg/mL + 10 µg/mL)
IL-1β (pg/mL)	94.51 ± 0.36a	116.91 ± 1.86a	310.89 ± 4.84c	243.15 ± 16.12b
IL-6 (pg/mL)	33.61 ± 0.74a	34.89 ± 1.36a	103.68 ± 0.92c	81.70 ± 0.87b
TNF-α (pg/mL)	36.78 ± 1.04a	38.61 ± 0.56a	65.98 ± 1.13c	60.36 ± 3.92b

Values are expressed as mean ± SEM, n = 3. Mean with different letters differ (a, b, or c) are significantly different (P < 0.05) from each other.