Effects of orally administered LPSp on phagocytic activity against Aβ_1–42 in microglial cells isolated from the brain.

<p>The brains were collected after the experiment and the microglial cells isolated by the enzymatic digestion. The phagocytic activity against HF488- Aβ_1–42 in the microglial cells was measured using a flow cytometer as described in the Methods. No significant difference is observed between groups (one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s multiple-comparisons test). The box-whisker plots describe the minimum (end of the bottom whisker), the first quartile (bottom border of the box), the median (line through the box), the third quartile (top border of the box), and the maximum (end of the top whisker) of the distribution, <i>n</i> = 3–6.