Figure 3.

YGW treatments effectively alleviated LPS-induced damage in Kupffer cells. (a) Damaged and elongated Kupffer cells (indicated by the arrow) were observed after treatment with 1 μg/mL LPS; their morphology was restored to normal after treatment with 15 mg/mL YGW for 24 and 72 h scale bar = 30 μm. (b) MTT assay showed the cell viability of liver Kupffer cells under different concentrations of YGW. Irrespective of LPS treatment, the viability of Kupffer cells treated with YGW (5–20 mg/mL) significantly increased compared with that of Kupffer cells not treated with YGW (n = 3 for each group; values are presented as mean ± SEM).