Figure 6.

Effects of dietary supplementation on inflammatory markers. (A) Representative Western blots from retinal homogenates of control mice or mice that received MCE fed with either vehicle or diet supplement. (B–E) Densitometric analysis of the levels of phosphorylated form of nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-kB), tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-10. MCE resulted in increased levels of the phosphorylated form of NF-kB, TNF-α and IL-6, while IL-10 levels were decreased, effects that were almost completely prevented by dietary supplementation (n = 6 for each group). * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01 and *** p < 0.001 versus control; ^§ p < 0.05 and ^§§ p < 0.001 versus MCE mice fed with vehicle (one-way ANOVA followed by the Newman–Keuls multiple comparison post-hoc test).