(A) Percentage of CD3+CD4+
epidermal cells stained with the indicated immune checkpoint markers.
(B) Percentage of
CD3+CD4+ dermal cells stained with the
indicated immune checkpoint markers. (C) Percentage of
CD3+CD8+ epidermal cells stained with
the indicated immune checkpoint markers. (D) Percentage of
CD3+CD8+ dermal cells stained with the
indicated immune checkpoint markers. C, controls; T1, patches/plaques <
10% of body surface area; T2, patches/plaques ≥ 10% of
body surface area; T3, ≥ 1 skin tumor; and T4, erythroderma. Diamonds
indicate the mean value; boxes span the 25th–75th percentile
(inter-quartile range, IQR); whiskers indicate the highest/lowest data point
within 1.5 * IQR from the box. Any remaining data points are shown as
circles. The Kruskal Wallis test determined the indicated P
values, which compare healthy control skin vs all tumor stages combined. There
were too few samples from patients with T3 or T4 disease to discern true
differences between tumor stages. See also Table
2. Representative data from 3 independent experiments are shown.