Fig. 5.

Reversal of binding of the culture-adapted clinical isolates, P069, 8146 and GL6, on unstimulated and TNF-stimulated HDMEC under static conditions. pRBC, including ItG, were allowed to bind for 1 h to the EC, washed and subsequently incubated in BB without mAb (control) or with αICAM-1 mAb at 5 µg/ml and αCD36 mAb at 10 µg/ml or the combination of these mAbs for 1 h. Results expressed as bound pRBC/mm² ± standard deviation. **P < 0.01 (compared with group “with TNF”). Binding is also shown to unstimulated (“without TNF”) HDMEC