Figure 6.
Caspase-3 activity is significantly reduced by therapeutic endogenous expression of human IL-10 in thymus of septic IL-10 knockout mice. Compared to animals pretreated with either an empty vector or buffer only, IL-10−/− mice receiving an intrathymic injection with Adv/hIL-10 prior to CLP demonstrated a significant reduction of thymic caspase-3 activity. *P < 0.05 as determined by Student’s t-test (Adv/hIL-10 versus Adv/empty). *P < 0.05 as determined by Student’s t-test (Adv/hIL-10 versus buffer).