Fig. 1From: Mechanical stimulation of human dermal fibroblasts regulates pro-inflammatory cytokines: potential insight into soft tissue manual therapiesa Schematic representation of cell culturing method designed to allow matched comparison between unstrained primary human dermal fibroblasts (Control) and primary human dermal fibroblasts subjected to cyclic short-duration strain (CSDS). All conditioned media was collected simultaneously 24 or 96 h after the onset of the CSDS strain profile. b Schematic representation of CSDS profile used for studies in Fig. 1 and 2. c ELISA for interleukin (IL)-6 collected from primary dermal fibroblasts 96 h following CSDS compared to time-matched unstrained controls. Data are mean ± SEM normalized to Control; n = 3 per condition. * indicates p < 0.05 against Control by paired t-testBack to article page