“…These findings are somewhat in alignment with previous reports investigating LPS activation in microglial cells, in particular for elevation of MIP-2, TNF-alpha, IL-1a, IL-6, MIP-1a, MCP-1 and GCSF, NO, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) (Soliman et al, 2013) where others report elevation of additional pro-inflammatory markers such as free radicals, osteopontin (Hasegawa-Ishii, Takei, 2011, Mayer et al, 2011), IL-1beta (Ye et al, 2013), PGE2 (Kim et al, 2013b) and increased the levels of cyclooxygenase (Cox) 1 and 2 (Soliman, et al 2013). In general pro-inflammatory processes associated with activated BV-2 microglial cells involved a number of signaling pathways that involve Src-MEK1/2-ERK1/2 (Manivannan et al, 2013, Yeh et al, 2013) p38MAPK phosphorylation (Kim et al, 2013a), phosphorylation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase and the nuclear translocation of NF-kappaB p65 (Jung et al, 2013, More et al, 2013) /activation of NFkappaB-signaling pathway (Yeh, Yang, 2013) or down-regulation of HO-1 / and PKA-mediated CREB phosphorylation.…”