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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Immunol. 2013 Mar 25;190(9):4754–4762. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1201742

Figure 2. Homeostatic expansion of activated and control NK cells in alymphoid hosts.

Figure 2

(A) Cytokine-activated or control treated congenic NK cells from Rag1−/− mice were CFSE labeled and adoptively transferred into Rag-2−/− γc−/− hosts. Nearly all splenic NK cells proliferated within 7d of adoptive transfer as shown by dilution of CFSE of NK1.1+ pre-activated (solid line) and control (dashed line) NK cells and quantitated in panel B (mean +/− SEM of 4 independent experiments; n.s., not significant). (C) Percentage and absolute number of NK cells per spleen following adoptive transfer. (D) Ratio of pre-activated to control NK cells 1, 3, and 7 days after adoptive transfer.