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. 2019 Aug 29;9:12534. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-47609-3

Figure 3.

Figure 3

The responses of interleukin 1 beta (IL-1β) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) were measured in assays of human blood monocyte or its derived macrophages with heat-killed Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) (multiplicity of infection: 100) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (5 μg/ml). (A) IL-1β and TNF-α in the reaction supernatant by monocyte derived macrophages and caspase-1 from reaction by monocyte, and (B) mRNA of cytokines response in cultured cells after stimulation for 24 hours and 6 hours, respectively. The Y axis of mRNA is fold-change compared to the negative controls. The data were compared using the Mann Whitney U test. The crossed lines are mean values and bars of standard errors. *0.01 ≤ p < 0.05. **0.001 ≤ p < 0.01. HC, healthy controls; pt, patients.