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From: The non-pathogenic mycobacteria M. smegmatis and M. fortuitum induce rapid host cell apoptosis via a caspase-3 and TNF dependent pathway

Figure 8

Differences in apoptosis induced by facultative-pathogenic and non-pathogenic mycobacteria in BALB/c and C57Bl/6 dendritic cells. C57Bl/6 (A) and BALB/c (B) bone marrowderived dendritic cells (BMDD) were infected at an MOI of 10:1 with M. smegmatis (Msme), M. bovis BCG or left untreated (UT). After 2 h cells were washed and incubated in infection media with 100 μg/ml gentamycin for an additional 20 h. The percentage of hypodiploid cells of a total of 10,000 cells was determined using the flow cytometry. The values of the mean and standard deviation of three independent experiments are shown.

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