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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Behav Immun. 2008 Jan 25;22(4):600–605. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2007.12.004

Figure 2. Cortisol inhibits telomerase activity in both T cell subsets.

Figure 2

Cells were stimulated with PHA together with DMSO (diluent) or hydrocortisone Immediately prior to cell preparation for the TRAP assay, T cells or subsets thereof were isolated (Milteny magnetic beads). Results are expressed as relative telomerase activity for 10,000 blast cells from each cell population as compared to its corresponding DMSO control, which is arbitrarily set at 1.0. For PBMC (n=8), and for the CD8 & CD4 (n=3).