Figure 3.

Numerical, phenotypical, and functional analyses of natural killer (NK) cells and the subtypes of different tissues from the microbial translocation (MT)^high and MT^low groups. (a) Distribution of macaque NK cell subsets in blood and tissues from the MT^high and MT^low groups. (b) NK cell subtype in Peyer's patches mononuclear cells (PPMCs) of the MT^high and MT^low groups. (c) Expression of CD69 and (d) CD107a molecules on CD56⁺ NK cell subsets of the MT^high and MT^low groups. The column bar indicates the mean of the ratio of target cells (mononuclear cells in (a); NK cells in (b); CD56⁺CD16⁻ NK cells in (c) and (d)). Error bars and individual standard deviations (SD) are shown. ^* P ≤ 0.05 and ^** P ≤ 0.01 as calculated by two-sided nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test.