Fig. 2.

The effects of HAECs number on the functions of granulocytes. The oxidative burst capacity of human granulocytes changed when they were cocultured with different number of HAECs. The levels of respiratory burst were assessed by flow cytometry and for comparison of the results, OBI (oxidative burst index) was calculated; that is the ratio of mean fluorescence of stimulated neutrophils to mean fluorescence of unstimulated neutrophils (A). The coculture of human granulocytes with various number of hAECs altered the phagocytosis percentage of the neutrophils (B).