Figure 5.

Effect of EhCox gene silencing on erythrophagocytosis and cytopathic activity. (A) Confocal microscopy of Eh after 20 min incubation with Phicoerythrin labeled RBC at 37°C. Quantitation of erythrophagocytosis was performed with mean florescent intensity (MFI) analysis from three independent experiments, AU, arbitrary units. (B) EhCoxgs showed increase Caco-2 cells monolayer destruction in comparison to control Eh in a time-dependent manner. The bars indicate the means and the error bars indicate the standard errors of the means for different experiments. The asterisks indicate the results of comparisons with the controls. ^*P < 0.05.