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Published in final edited form as: Toxicology. 2011 Sep 6;290(2-3):157–169. doi: 10.1016/j.tox.2011.08.021

Table 6. Lymph node T cell populations at 48 weeks of age.

Lymph node	sex	0 μg/kg mean ± SEM	2.5 μg/kg mean ± SEM	5.0 μg/kg mean ± SEM

CD4⁺CD8^- (%)	♀	27.7 ± 3.1	27.3 ± 1.2	24.4 ± 1.9
CD4⁺CD8^- (%)	♂	28.4 ± 1.1	32.0 ± 2.3	37.7 ± 1.1^*

CD4^-CD8⁺ (%)	♀	20.1 ± 3.4	13.7 ± 1.5	11.1 ± 0.9^*
CD4^-CD8⁺ (%)	♂	24.4 ± 2.0	24.6 ± 1.5	19.3 ± 1.0^*

CD4^-CD8^- (%)	♀	51.4 ± 6.4	58.3 ± 2.5	63.9 ± 2.2
CD4^-CD8^- (%)	♂	43.2 ± 2.6	40.0 ± 2.9	39.7 ± 1.3

CD4⁺Vβ17TcR⁺ (%)	♀	3.6 ± 0.3	4.9 ± 1.0	5.4 ± 0.5
CD4⁺Vβ17TcR⁺ (%)	♂	6.1 ± 0.3	7.3 ± 0.9	8.7 ± 0.8^*

CD3⁺Vβ3TcR⁺ (%)	♀	5.2 ± 0.4	6.4 ± 1.0	8.1 ± 1.0^*
CD3⁺Vβ3TcR⁺ (%)	♂	5.1 ± 0.4	6.4 ± 1.0	8.4 ± 1.2^*

CD4⁺CD25⁺ (%)	♀	8.7 ± 1.0	6.8 ± 1.0	6.1 ± 0.4
CD4⁺CD25⁺ (%)	♂	10.2 ± 1.2	13.0 ± 2.0	7.2 ± 1.8

N≥6 mice/treatment/sex;

^*

p<0.05, Dunnett's test.