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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Immunol. 2018 Jun 9;195:139–148. doi: 10.1016/j.clim.2018.06.003

Figure 5. Correlation between HbA1c and the level of IRF-7 expression in PBMCs induced by IFN-α.

Figure 5

PBMCs of 11 T1D patients with different levels of HbA1c were stimulated with IFN-α (1000 U/ml) for 18 h. The cells were harvested and RNA samples were prepared for qRT-PCR to detect mRNA levels of IRF-7. The IFN-α-stimulated IRF-7 mRNA level was designated as a ratio value (IFN-α-stimulated/medium only). The relationship between IFN-α-stimulated IRF-7 mRNA levels and HbA1c values was analyzed using the correlation test.