Table 1. Anti-TNF therapy increases monocyte and granulocyte numbers in lymph nodes efferent to arthritic joints in TNF-Tg mice.
PLN from the TNF-Tg mice described in Figure 1 were harvested after 6-weeks of treatment, and analyzed by flow cytometry to quantify cells per PLN, which are presented as the mean ± SEM ×106 cells per PLN (* p<0.05 by unpaired t-test).
IgG treated | Anti-TNF treated | p-value | |
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B cells (CD19+) | 1.4 ± 0.3 | 2.4 ± 0.8 | n.s. |
T cells (CD3+) | 0.5 ± 0.09 | 2.0 ± 0.7 | n.s. |
non-B/non-T (CD19−, CD3−) | 1.8 ± 0.3 | 5.2 ± 1.0 | 0.009 |
monocytes/macrophages (CD3−, CD19−, CD11b+, CD11c−, F4/80+) | 0.8 ± 0.1 | 1.7 ± 0.4 | 0.047 |
granulocytes (CD3−, CD19−, CD11b+, CD11c−, F4/80−, Gr1+) | 0.7 ± 0.09 | 2.0 ± 0.05 | 0.024 |