In agreement, LOX-1 protein expression was also found upregulated in infected cells: this was confirmed by two methods, a commercial LOX-1-specific ELISA (Fig. 5D, B. besnoiti infection vs. controls at 24 h p. i.: p = 0.0025) and by the FACS-based measurement of LOX-1 surface expression (Fig. 5E; B. besnoiti infection vs. controls; 6 h p. i.: p = 0.0167, 24 h p. i.: p = 0.0243). This evidence concerns the gene OLR1 and infection.