Table 1.

TaqMan assays used to detect gene expression. The MHC class II assay was designed for the present study. The TCR and EF1A assays have been described in previous studies (Moore et al. 2005;Olsvik et al. 2005)

Gene	Forward primer	Reverse primer	TaqMan probe
MHC class II	CTCACTGAGCCCATGGTGTAT	GAGTCCTGCCAAGGCTAAGATG	CTGGGACCCGTCCCTG
TCRα	GACAGCTACTACAGCCAGGTT	CAGAATGGTCAGGGATAGGAAGTT	ACACAGATGCAAAGATC
EF1A	CCCCTCCAGGACGTTTACAAA	CACACGGCCCACAGGTACA	ATCGGTGGTATTGGAAC