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From: Heat shock cognate protein 70 contributes to Brucella invasion into trophoblast giant cells that cause infectious abortion

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B. abortus infection in trophoblast giant cells. (A) Bacterial internalization into trophoblast stem (TS) and giant (TG) cells. Data are the averages of triplicate samples from three identical experiments, and the error bars represent the standard deviations. Statistically significant difference between the bacterial internalization into TS and TG cells is indicated by asterisk (*, P < 0.01). (B) Intracellular replication of B. abortus in TS and TG cells. Datum points and error bars represent the mean of CFU of triplicate samples from a typical experiment (performed at least four times) and their standard deviations. Statistically significant difference between bacterial replication of B. abortus in TS and TG cells after 72 h of inoculation is indicated by asterisk (*, P < 0.01). (C) F-actin staining of bacteria infected cells. The figure shows GFP (bacteria) and Alexa Fluor 594 (actin filaments) channel merged images. Arrows indicate TS and TG cells containing bacteria.

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