Table 2.

Specific splenic CD4+ cells response in Naïve and infected young and old mice.

	Average ± SD
Young	Naïve	N40	N40 + Bm	Bm
Treg	164.7 ± 48.4	2492.0 ± 103.2	2681.0 ± 37.5	1809.0 ± 243.7
Th17	8.33 ± 2.08	262.7 ± 12.4	271.7 ± 5.03	366.3 ± 41.5
Treg/Th17	31.7 ± 9.77	9.50 ± 0.53	9.84 ± 0.04	6.19 ± 0.63
Th1	21.0 ± 6.08	108.0 ± 9.54	168.3 ± 19.7	298.3 ± 31.0
Th2	71.3 ± 25.7	121.7 ± 7.51	83.7 ± 12.1	106.7 ± 18.8
Th1/Th2	0.30 ± 0.03	0.87 ± 0.43	2.03 ± 0.47	2.82 ± 0.23
Old
Treg	164.7 ± 48.4	248.7 ± 46.4	336.3 ± 97.6	229.7 ± 82.6
Th17	15.0 ± 3.61	103.3 ± 15.9	121.3 ± 14.5	255.3 ± 10.5
Treg/Th17	10.9 ± 0.56	2.44 ± 0.25	2.88 ± 0.73	0.89 ± 0.29
Th1	21.0 ± 6.08	68.0 ± 20.2	117.3 ± 25.7	215.3 ± 17.01
Th2	71.33 ± 19.0	706.7 ± 107.8	490.0 ± 55.05	560.7 ± 41.8
Th1/Th2	0.39 ± 0.22	0.09 ± 0.06	0.24 ± 0.03	0.38 ± 0.006