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Fig. 3

From: Human tumor necrosis factor alpha affects the egg-laying dynamics and glucose metabolism of Schistosoma mansoni adult worms in vitro

Fig. 3

Concentrations of lactate (a), glucose (b) in the culture media and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) (c) in Schistosoma mansoni adult worms treated with hTNF-α (5, 20 and 40 ng/ml) on days 1, 3, 5 and 5c (the superscript indicates that the medium had been replaced on day 3). Means are plotted and SEM are indicated by vertical lines. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.005. c The y-axis indicates the ratio of the luminescence values of the treated/control worms

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