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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Autoimmun. 2007 Nov 7;30(4):212–221. doi: 10.1016/j.jaut.2007.09.003

Table 1.

The density of immune/inflammatory cells in the conjunctiva of 4-week-old untreated mice (4W), 16-week-old untreated mice (16W), and 16-week-old mice subjected to an air draft without (F) or with (FS) systemic scopolamine administration for 5 and 10 days (D) in the NOD.B10.H2b mouse strain

Area 4W 16W Group 5Da 10Da,b p (F vs. FS)

P (4W vs. 16W)
CD4+ (cells/100 μm) Epithelium 1.39±0.20 2.13±0.28 F 2.26±0.51 2.82±0.38** <0.05 in 5D
<0.01 FS 3.14±0.78* 4.30±0.73*** <0.01 in 10D
Stroma 4.66±0.58 3.29±0.32 F 3.02±0.55 3.31±0.61
<0.01 FS 2.80±0.39* 2.56±0.62*
CD8+ (cells/100 μm) Epithelium 1.82±0.54 1.33±0.21 F 0.26±0.10*** 0.33±0.12***
0.06 FS 0.28±0.32*** 0.58±0.42**
Stroma 2.24±0.77 1.58±0.38 F 0.23±0.11*** 0.34±0.13***
0.09 FS 0.28±0.27*** 0.55±0.54**
γδ TCR+ (cells/100 μm) Epithelium 0.46±0.25 1.21±0.40 F 0.70±0.33* 1.56±0.53††
<0.01 FS 0.43±0.29*** 1.57±0.57†††
Stroma 0.24±0.04 0.59±0.26 F 0.43±0.12 0.52±0.32
<0.01 FS 0.42±0.22 0.54±0.32
CCR5+ (cells/100 μm) Epithelium 0.42±0.21 0.53±0.13 F 0.57±0.16 0.62±0.19
0.44 FS 0.62±0.13 0.82±0.14*
Stroma 0.94±0.35 1.58±0.31 F 1.65±0.38 1.81±0.32 <0.01 in 10D
0.01 FS 2.01±0.69 2.96±0.69*
a*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01,

***

p<0.001 vs. 16W.

b †

p<0.05,

††

p<0.01,

†††

p<0.001 vs. 5D.