Assessment of anti-inflammatory activity of locally or systemically administered peptide in a mouse dorsal air-pouch model.
A, experimental design to assess efficacy of locally administered peptide. A dorsal air pouch (a.p.) was created by subcutaneous (s.c.) injection of air on days 0 and 3. Zymosan (red) or PBS (control) was injected into the air pouch on day 6. Peptide or protein (blue) was injected into the air pouch on day 6 at the time of zymosan injection and repeated 9 h later. Air-pouch exudate was collected and analyzed on day 7 by flow cytometry (FC). Nine mice were studied in each of five study arms: PBS alone (PBS), zymosan (zymo), zymosan + scrambled peptide (SCR), zymosan + P672 (P672), and zymosan + BK1.3 (BK1.3). B–F, summary data for flow cytometry analysis for locally administered peptide. The y axis shows cell counts of total leukocytes (B), neutrophils (C), eosinophils (D), monocytes (E), and T-cells (F). The data are presented for each arm as means ± S.E. and with individual data points. Statistically significant differences (compared with zymosan) using a one-way ANOVA with Dunnett's correction for multiple comparisons, are indicated by asterisks: ****, p ≤ 0.0001; ***, p ≤ 0.001; **, p ≤ 0.01; *, p ≤ 0.05. G, experimental design to assess the efficacy of intraperitoneally administered peptide. This is identical to that used for locally administered peptide (above) except that peptide or protein was administered intraperitoneally. Nine mice were studied in each of three study arms: zymosan + SCR (SCR), zymosan + P672 (P672), and zymosan + BK1.3 (BK1.3). H and I, summary data for flow cytometry analysis for intraperitoneally administered peptide. The y axis shows cell counts of total leukocytes (H), neutrophils (I), eosinophils (J), monocytes (K), and T-cells (L). The data are presented for each arm as means ± S.E. and with individual data points. Statistically significant differences (compared with SCR) using a one-way ANOVA with Dunnett's correction for multiple comparisons, are indicated by asterisks: ****, p ≤ 0.0001; ***, p ≤ 0.001; **, p ≤ 0.01; *, p ≤ 0.05.