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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 30.
Published in final edited form as: Virology. 2009 Aug 3;392(2):260–270. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.06.052

FIG. 2. SIVgag RNA levels in tissues of naïve control and SHIV immunized monkeys after vaginal SIVmac239challenge.

FIG. 2

(a) naïve control animals (SIVgag RNA copies/μg tissue RNA) and (b) SHIV-immunized animals (SIVgag RNA copies/μg tissue RNA); CD8+ lymphocyte-depleted, SHIV-immunized animals are indicated by a solid horizontal line under the animal numbers at the far right of the x-axis. Anatomic sites are denoted as follows: genital tract (closed red symbols), genital lymph nodes (open red symbols), peripheral lymphoid tissues (closed blue symbols), and intestinal tract/mesenteric LN (green symbols). The vRNA levels for the indicated tissues are displayed vertically above the animal numbers along the x-axis. The animals are grouped by the timing of necropsy after vaginal SIVmac239 challenge, as indicated by the brackets under the animal numbers. The horizontal dotted line indicates the limit of quantification for this assay and represents the cutoff value for designating positive samples.