The osteoblast as an inflammatory cell: production of cytokines in response to bacteria and components of bacterial biofilms

Table 1 Phagocytosis of live bacteria

	bacteria associated with cells (% of input) (mean of n = 4)		colonies counted after 24 h
	37 °C	4 °C	37 °C	4 °C
osteoblasts + S. epidermidis	47 ± 15	51 ± 21	257; 65*	52; 14*
osteoblasts + heparin + S.epidermidis	39 ± 21	34 ± 12	67; 38*	7; 8*

*The values represent each the mean of duplicates; two independent experiments are shown