Figure 2From: Thrombin increases inflammatory cytokine and angiogenic growth factor secretion in human adipose cells in vitroThrombin stimulates inflammatory cytokine secretion predominately from primary cultures of newly differentiated human adipocytes. Cultures of adipose tissue (n = 5), newly differentiated adipocytes (n = 5) or preadipocytes (n = 3) were stimulated with thrombin (1 U/ml) or thrombin (10 U/ml) in the presence or absence of a thrombin inhibitor (lepirudin) for 24 hours. PBS served as the negative control. The following cytokines were measured from the supernatants of confluent cultures. A) IL-1β; B) IL-6; C) TNF-α; D) MCP-1. Means ± SEM,. *P < 0.05 thrombin vs. PBS. ± P < 0.05 thrombin + lepirudin vs. thrombin.Back to article page