Figure 3.

Effects of probiotic strains on cytokine secretion by MDM derived from HD, UC and CD patients infected with AIEC-LF82 strain. (A) TNF-α and (B) IL-10 secretion by MDM derived from HD, UC patients or CD patients after 8 h of infection with AIEC-LF82 alone or in the presence of Lactobacillus strains (+L₁, +L₂) or Bifidobacterium strains (+B₁, +B₂) or S. epidermidis ATCC-155 (+S.e.), at 1:1 ratio or in the presence of 6MP (2 µg/mL) was quantified by ELISA. Dot lines (---) represent the median values for cytokine secretion of MDM infected with LF82 alone. Data are represented as explained in Figure 1. Statistical significance for each condition compared to MDM infected with LF82 alone was reported (* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001).