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Fig. 3 | BMC Microbiology

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From: N-acetyl-cysteine exhibits potent anti-mycobacterial activity in addition to its known anti-oxidative functions

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NAC limits mycobacterial proliferation by acting as an anti-mycobacterial compound. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was grown in Middlebrook 7H9 supplemented with OADC as described in Methods. a Kinetic of mycobacteria growth during 7 days in the presence of NAC at indicated concentrations was verified using CFU counts. b Mycobacterial growth was evaluated at different pH as described in Methods. Fold increase of bacterial growth was calculated as the ratio of CFU number counted on days 0 and 5. Significant differences were observed for the indicated experimental conditions (***p < 0.001). The data represent the means ± SEM of triplicate samples. The data shown are representative of at least three independent experiments

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