Fig. 1
From: Analysis of cultivable microbiota and diet intake pattern of the long-lived naked mole-rat
Stimulation of inflammatory cytokines by naked mole-rat microbes. Heparinized blood from healthy volunteers was stimulated by medium alone (negative control), LPS (positive control), S. sciuri, B. megaterium, P. distasonis, C. ramosum, B. ovatus and two human pathobionts E. coli and S. aureus at 37 °C and 5 % CO2 for 8 h. The levels of the cytokines IL-1β (a), TNF-α (b), IL-6 (c) were measured by cytometric bead array assays. The experiment was done in triplicates and data are expressed as mean ± SEM. *p < 0.05; #strong hemolysis