Figure 5.
Correlation between the TSG-6 expression and TNF-α production by U-937 cells infected with C. pneumoniae at a MOI 5 in the presence of KYNA or the analogs. U-937 cells were pretreated for 30 min with KYNA or KYNA analogs at a concentration of 500 μM, and thereafter incubated for 24 h with 5 MOI of Chlamydia pneumoniae. The TNF-α levels in the supernatants were determined with ELISA assay, and the TSG-6 expression by RT qPCR reactions. The significance of correlation was calculated by correlation analysis with the Graph-Pad Prism 5 statistical program. Symbols and numbers represent the data obtained with KYNA or KYNA analogs. Cpn: incubation only with Chlamydia pneumoniae without compounds. The correlation coefficient, r value is-0.891, the p-value = 0.0072, the 95% confidence interval is −0.9838 to −0,4174.