Figure 1From: Lactobacillus acidophilus induces a slow but more sustained chemokine and cytokine response in naïve foetal enterocytes compared to commensal Escherichia coliL. acidophilus and E. coli strongly induce chemokine expression in foetal primary epithelial cells in vitro. Epithelial cells from foetuses at Day-1 were stimulated for 2 h and 4 h with LPS (10 μg/ml), L. acidophilus NCFM (10, 30 and 100 μg/ml) or E. coli Nissle (1, 10, 30 μg/ml). Gene expression was measured by RT-PCR. Symbols indicate mean fold increase and SD of 4 independent experiments with cells pooled from 6-10 pups. ***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05 compared to "unstimulated cells". Data were normalised to Actb and then to the average of "unstimulated cells 2 h" from the 4 experiments, which was defined to 1.Back to article page