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. 2022 Apr 1;13(2):583–613. doi: 10.14336/AD.2021.0829

Figure 10.

Figure 10.

Twelve weeks of nCUR treatment in rats with chronic GWI reduced NLRP3 inflammasome formation in the hippocampus. Figures A-X illustrate examples of NLRP3 inflammasomes in IBA-1+ microglia (A-L) and NeuN+ neurons (M-X) from the CA3 subfield of naïve control (A-D, M-P), GWI-VEH (E-H, Q-T), GWI-nCUR (I-L, U-X) groups. The bar charts in Y-AE compare concentrations of NF-kB (Y), NLRP3 (Z), caspase-1 (AA), and IL-18 (AB), the number of inflammasomes/unit area (AC), the percentage of microglia with inflammasomes (AD), and the percentage of neurons with inflammasomes (AE). All of these measures except caspase 1 and the percentage of inflammasomes in neurons were upregulated in the GWI-VEH group but significantly reduced in the GWI-nCUR group. Scale bar, A-L = 25 μm; M-X = 12.5 μm; *, p<0.05, **, p<0.01, ***, p<0.001; NS, not significant.