Figure 4

Assessment of IL-8 secretion. IL-8 concentration in the supernatants of BEAS-2B incubated with medium alone (CTR) or treated with TNF-α zymosan (Zym), pidotimod (Pid 100 μg/ml), TNF-α and pidotimod (TNF-α, Pid or zymosan and pidotimod (Zym + Pid for 24 h, evaluated by ELISA. IL-8 are expressed as mean ± SEM. **p < 0.01 versus control.