Sex Bias in Experimental Immune-Mediated, Drug-Induced Liver Injury in BALB/c Mice: Suggested Roles for Tregs, Estrogen, and IL-6 (original) (raw)
Figure 5
No sex bias in baseline Treg function in BALB/c mice.
(A) There was no sex bias in proliferation of T-effector cells (n = 10/group) co-cultured with naïve Tregs (Treg∶T-effector ratio 1∶1) in the presence of anti-CD3 (5 µg/mL) and anti-CD28 (2.5 µg/mL). (B) Using FACS analysis, of Tregs co-cultured as described in A, intracellular expression of inhibitory molecules PD-1(CD279, cloneJ43) was similar in female and male mice, and CTLA-4 (CD152, cloneUC10-489) was not detected in either sex (Experiments run in duplicate, n = 5–6 mice/group naive = filled histogram, stimulated = open histogram *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001).