The cytokines TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-10 were determined using BD CBA Mouse Cytokine Assay kits according to the manufacturer's specification (BD Biosciences, CA, USA). Flow cytometry measurements were performed on a FACSCalibur flow cytometry (BD Bioscience, CA, USA) collected using the Cell-QuestTM software package provide by the manufacturer (1200 events). FlowJO software 7.6.4 (Tree Star, Inc, Ashland, OR) was used for data analysis. Results are representative of two experiments in triplicate. Nitrite concentration (NO) was determinate by Griess Reaction as described (Nogueira et al., 2015 (link)).
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