Fig. 7.
Conditioning regimes prime macrophages to secrete TNFα after LPS stimulation. Peritoneal macrophages were pooled from a minimum of 4 B6D2F1 animals in each group ([▪] naive; [□] 900cGy TBI; [▧] 1,300 cGy TBI) within 4 hours of the completion of TBI and stimulated with LPS (0.1 μg/mL). TNFα was determined by ELISA in the culture supernatants taken 4 hours after stimulation. Data represent the mean ± standard error of quadruplicate wells standardized for 105 macrophages by FACS analysis using F4/80 positivity. Data represent one of three similar experiments. *P < .03 v naive and 1,300 cGy TBI groups.