Figure 6.

Analysis of intracellular cytokine production by T-cells. Cytokine production by TCR-Vβ2⁺ T cells stimulated in the presence of autologous DCs pretreated with the indicated stimuli and incubated with the superantigen TSST-1. The T-cells expressing TCR-Vβ2 chain, which are activated by TSST-1, were 10% of the purified CD4⁺ CD45RA⁺ T cells. (a) The data are from one representative experiment. (b) shows the comparison of all six cultures treated with medium alone or with RSV. Horizontal bars represent the mean. The results were compared by paired t-test.