Figure 1.

IL-1β induces IL-6 production from HMC-1 cells. To each well of a 6 well culture plate, two ml of HMC-1 mast cells (0.75 × 10⁶cells/ml) were cultured with IL-1β (1, 10, and 50 ng/ml) for 24 hours. The cultures were carried out in triplicate. Supernatants were harvested for measuring IL-6 by ELISA. By Student's t-test analysis, * indicates p < 0.0001, when compared with the medium alone. + indicates p < 0.0005, when compared with the IL-1 (1 ng/ml) group.