Figure 6
From: In vivo involvement of polymorphonuclear neutrophils in Leishmania infantum infection
Liver and spleen amastigote load in neutrophil-depleted and control mice. Animals received intraperitoneally 200 μg of RB6-BC5 or of irrelevant IgG2b rat mAb 5 h prior to L. infantum inoculation (108 stationary-phase promastigote per mouse). The parasite counts were determined 22 days after the infection from Giemsa-stained spleen and liver touch prints, and are expressed (mean ± SEM) in Leishman Donovan units (LDU = number of amastigotes per 1000 nucleated cells × organ weight (in grams) × 2 × 105). The experiment was repeated twice.