Figure 5.

Semiquantitative analysis of the TCRβ chain repertoire of NKT cells isolated from the liver of control mice (hatched bars) and recruited by PIM_4–6 (solid bars), and of lymph node T cells, used here as the internal control for primer efficiency (open bars). The value “1” is attributed arbitrarily to the area of highest peak of the Gaussian pattern obtained from the lymph node T cells. Only the most represented families of Vβ-Cβ in granuloma-like structures have been studied by semiquantitative PCR analysis. Vβ6, absent from granuloma-like structures, was used as a negative control.