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. 2016 Sep 15;11(9):e0162994. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162994

Fig 1. TSH increases the abundance of CD40 protein on the surface of fibrocytes.

Fig 1

(A) Results of flow cytometric analyses show that the level of cell-surface CD40 is augmented. As shown in representative histograms, 24 h TSH stimulation resulted in comparable CD40 stimulation in fibrocytes from healthy controls and patients with Graves’ diseases (1.34- and 1.50-fold MFI increase, respectively). in cells. (B) The CD40 antibodies bound per cell (ABC) test also shows a statistically significant (n = 6, P < 0.01) increase in CD40 density per cell in samples treated with TSH.