Cell culture media and
hemoglobin were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA),
fetal bovine serum (FBS) from Gibco (Rockville, MD, USA), bovine serum albumin (BSA) (Fraction V) from USB (Cleveland, OH, USA).
J774A.1 cells were obtained from ATCC (catalog number TIB-67) and human coronary endothelial cells from Lonza (Basel, Switzerland).
CD163 was obtained from R&D Systems, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN, USA). Common Laboratory Chemicals were purchased from Fisher Scientific or Sigma. Peptide was synthesized, per our amino acid sequence plan, by Chinese Peptides Company, (Hangzhou, China) and fully characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen (C,H,N) composition analyses and by MALDI/FAB mass spectrometry.
111InCl
3 (Nordion Inc., Ottawa, ON, Canada) was supplied by Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN)/CNEN, (São Paulo, Brazil). HPLC analysis were performed in a Shimadzu VP series equipment (Shimadzu, Japan) connected to radiation detector Flow Scintillation Analyzer, Radiomatic 610RT (PerkinElmer, Boston, MA, USA).
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