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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Immunol Methods. 2009 Jun 9;347(1-2):36–45. doi: 10.1016/j.jim.2009.05.011

Table 2.

CD4 T-cell cytokine expression in response to whole sucrose-purified UV-killed vaccinia and inhibition by blocking locus-specific anti-HLA class II antibodies.

cytokine
subject mAb IFN-γ IL-2 TNF-α
1 %(+) CD4a 0.083 0.190 0.270
anti-DRb 75.9 72.1 77.0
anti-DPb 30.1 36.8 37.0
anti-DQb 38.6 0.0 3.7
12 %(+) CD4 0.430 0.750 1.120
anti-DR 85.3 82.7 79.5
anti-DP 27.9 8.0 19.6
anti-DQ 11.6 0.0 5.4
9 %(+) CD4 0.137 0.250 0.473
anti-DR 72.6 78.2 89.5
anti-DP 15.9 2.0 2.8
anti-DQ 15.9 0.0 0.0
3 %(+) CD4 0.295 0.545 0.510
anti-DR 66.1 67.0 62.7
anti-DP 25.4 39.4 21.6
anti-DQ 8.5 28.4 7.8
mean ± SD, 4 subjects anti-DR 75.0 ± 8.0 75.0 ± 6.9 77.2 ± 11.1
anti-DP 24.8 ± 6.3 21.6 ± 19.3 20.3 ± 14
anti-DQ 18.6 ± 13.6 7.1 ± 14.2 4.2 ± 3.3
a

Percentage of lymphocyte forward/side scatter, live, CD3(+), CD4 (+) cells with specific accumulation of the indicated cytokine in response to vaccinia after subtraction of values for mock stimulation.

b

Percentage inhibition of the number of similarly gated cells by the indicated mAb.