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. 2018 Sep 9;194(1):17–26. doi: 10.1111/cei.13164

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Vitamin D receptor (VDR) expression negatively correlates with T helper type 2 (Th2) cytokines in CD4+ T cells of food allergy (FA) patients. Peripheral blood samples were collected from healthy subjects (n = 20) and FA patients (n = 20). CD4+CD25+CD127+ T cells were isolated from the blood samples by magnetic cell sorting (MACS). The T cells were analysed by real‐time–quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT–qPCR) and Western blotting. (a,b) The bars indicate the mRNA levels (a) and protein levels (a) of VDR, interleukin (IL‐4), IL‐5 and IL‐13 in the T cells. (c) The dot‐plots show the correlation between VDR and Th2 cytokines. The data of bars are presented as mean ± standared deviation (s.d.). *P < 0·01, compared with the healthy subjects. The samples from individual subjects were analysed separately. Each sample was analysed in duplicate.