Table 2.

Numbers of total lymphocytes and cytomegalovirus (CMV)pp65‐specific CD8⁺ T cells following culture with interferon dendritic dells (IFN DCs) derived from patients with GBM before and after culture under different conditions [with the CMVpp65‐peptide alone (P), the peptide with Z (P+Z), the peptide with G (P+G) and the peptide and Z+G (P+Z+G)]

Patients	Peptide used	Culture	Agents	No. of total lym.	No. of CMV‐specific CD8+ T
					A*0201	A*0101	A*2402
Experiment 1	A*0201	Before	None	2.0 × 106	37.2 × 102	n.t.	n.t.
Patient 1		After	P	14.0 × 106	41.5 × 105	n.t.	n.t.
			P+Z	11.2 × 106	29.2 × 105	n.t.	n.t.
			P+G	10.9 × 106	41.7 × 105	n.t.	n.t.
			P+Z+G	14.1 × 106	53.7 × 105	n.t.	n.t.
Experiment 2	A*0101	Before	None	2.0 × 106	n.t.	10.2 × 102	n.t.
Patient 1		After	P	6.8 × 106	n.t.	21.5 × 104	n.t.
			P+Z	9.8 × 106	n.t.	51.7 × 104	n.t.
			P+G	6.8 × 106	n.t.	19.9 × 104	n.t.
			P+Z+G	11.5 × 106	n.t.	56.8 × 104	n.t.
Experiment 3	A*0201	Before	None	2.0 × 106	8.2 × 102	n.t.	n.t.
Patient 2		After	P	9.8 × 106	5.1 × 105	n.t.	n.t.
			P+Z+G	12.4 × 106	22.7 × 105	n.t.	n.t.
Experiment 4	A*0101	Before	None	2.0 × 106	n.t.	4.1 × 102	n.t.
Patient 3		After	P	7.2 × 106	n.t.	22.4 × 104	n.t.
			P+Z+G	10.6 × 106	n.t.	67.3 × 104	n.t.
Experiment 5	A*2402	Before	None	2.0 × 106	n.t.	n.t.	2.3 × 102
Patient 4		After	P	10.1 × 106	n.t.	n.t.	35.7 × 104
			P+Z+G	12.8 × 106	n.t.	n.t.	80.5 × 104