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. 2013 Jan 6;10(78):20120617. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0617

Figure 5.

Figure 5.

The effect of the detection limit Inline graphic on the estimate of the average turnover rate, Inline graphic, when fitting the BrdU labelling data of memory T cells in uninfected and SIV-infected rhesus macaques [13]. We consider three threshold levels, Inline graphic, 0.125 or 0.25, corresponding to the 4, 3 or 2 divisions, respectively, that a BrdU+ cell must undergo to result in BrdU progeny. Diamonds denote uninfected monkeys, squares denote SIV-infected monkeys with a low viral load, and circles denote monkeys with a high viral load in the study of Mohri et al. [13]. This analysis illustrates that the estimate of the average turnover rate depends on Inline graphic but not strongly.