Figure 6From: Mometasone and desloratadine additive effect on eosinophil survival and cytokine secretion from epithelial cellsAdditive effect of mometasone and desloratadine on eosinophil survival at day 4. Human epithelial conditioned media (HECM) at 10% (dark grey bars) from nasal mucosa and nasal polyp increased eosinophil survival compared. The combination of mometasone (MF) at 10-11M and desloratadine (DL) at 10-5M (striped bars) caused an inhibitory effect higher than MF (light grey bars) or DL (white bars) alone, and similar to MF at 10-7M. This additive effect was significant when eosinophil survival was induced by nasal mucosa HECM. Results expressed as mean ± SEM of eosinophil survival index. Wilcoxon Signed Rank test was used for statistical comparison. ** p < 0.01, compared to control media; † p < 0.05, compared to HECM. N = 10.Back to article page