“…Neutrophils were obtained from the fluid leakage of the mouse peritoneal lavage, washed with PBS (pH 7.6), and the mixture was centrifuged at 900 × g for 10 min at 4°C (Sorvall™ ST 40, Thermo Scientific®, Swedesboro, NJ, USA). After washing, the neutrophils were suspended in PBS (pH 7.6) and 30 μ L of this cell suspension (1 × 10 6 ) was incubated with 10 μ L of different doses of noreugenin (NRG: 1, 2.5, 5, 10, 50, or 100 μ M) or α -hydroxy-butein (AH-BU: 1, 2.5, 5, 10, 50, or 100 μ M) in the presence or absence of lipopolysaccharide (LPS: 5 μ g/mL, 10 μ L) (LPS from Escherichia coli serotype O111:B4, Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA), for 18 h in an enzyme immunoassay (EIE) plate [21–23]. For the next step, 10 μ L of neutrophil suspension from each sample of the different doses of the compounds was mixed with 10 μ L of trypan blue dye solution (0.4%).…”