Arginine Relieves the Inflammatory Response and Enhances the Casein Expression in Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells Induced by Lipopolysaccharide

Table 2

Effects of Arginine on protein expression of cytokines in LPS-treated BMECs.

	Con; (DMEM/F12 medium)	Arg; (100 µg/mL)	LPS; (10 µg/mL)	Arg + LPS; (100 µg/mL + 10 µg/mL)
IL-1β (pg/mL)	94.51 ± 0.36	116.91 ± 1.86	310.89 ± 4.84	243.15 ± 16.12
IL-6 (pg/mL)	33.61 ± 0.74	34.89 ± 1.36	103.68 ± 0.92	81.70 ± 0.87
TNF-α (pg/mL)	36.78 ± 1.04	38.61 ± 0.56	65.98 ± 1.13	60.36 ± 3.92

Values are expressed as mean ± SEM, . Mean with different letters differ (a, b, or c) are significantly different () from each other.