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. 2017 May 12;7:1848. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-02085-5

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Activation of IκBα, p38-MAPK and ERK in human eosinophils co-cultured with BEAS-2B cells under LL-37 stimulation. Human eosinophils (1.2 × 106) and BEAS-2B cells (4 × 105) were cultured either together or separately with or without 10 µg/ml LL-37 for 10 minutes prior to fixation and permeabilization. Intracellular levels of phosphorylated IκBα (A), phosphorylated p38 MAPK (B), and phosphorylated ERK (C) in cells were measured by intracellular staining with specific antibodies and analyzed using flow cytometry. EOS, eosinophils; CoEOS, eosinophils in co-culture; BEAS, BEAS-2B cells; CoBEAS, BEAS-2B cells in co-culture. Results are expressed as MFI subtracting corresponding control groups and shown as arithmetic mean plus SD of triplicate independent experiments. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 when compared between the denoted groups and eosinophil or BEAS-2B cell control groups.