Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2017 Jul 10;7:4972. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-05212-4

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© The Author(s) 2017

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

PMC Copyright notice

Increased mucosal transport of secretory antibodies in inflamed lungs. (a) anti-pIgR and anti-Gapdh immunoblot of 20 µg protein from whole lung homogenates of SPC-HA (n = 3) and SPC-HAxTCR-HA (n = 3) mice. Densitometric quantification of protein bands is stated in arbitrary units above each lane. Relative pIgR quantity was calculated normalizing densitometric pIgR value to the corresponding Gapdh value and subsequently comparing normalized pIgR values of the SPC-HAxTCR-HA group to the SPC-HA group. Data are representative for at least two individual experiments with similar results. (b) Lung tissue sections were stained with anti-pIgR (green), representative alveolar structures from n = 3/group are depicted. White circles illustrate representative densitometrically quantified tissue areas. Calculated total cell fluorescence (CTCF) was determined as: Integrated density of fluorescence-positive cell – (Area of fluorescence-positive cell × mean fluorescence intensity of background signal). Median CTCF of quantified areas in representative images are depicted as white numbers. IgA and IgM levels in (c) bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and (d) serum of SPC-HA and SPC-HAxTCR-HA mice were determined by ELISA. (e) Relative secretory IgA concentrations in serial dilutions of BALF samples were determined by ELISA. Results are expressed as the mean optical density (OD) at 450 nm ± SEM, *p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01 (n = 6–7/group).