FIGURE 3.
CD4+ T cell count, T-bet expression and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway activation differed according to degrees of sepsis. Splenocytes were obtained at 12 h after Candida injection. (A,B) CD4+ T cells were sorted by flow cytometry analysis. Protein levels of T-bet, phospho (p)-mTOR and p-P70S6 (C) in CD4+ T cells. Levels of T-bet, p-mTOR and p-P70S6 in CD4+ T cells were quantified by western blotting. The amount of each protein level was normalized by GAPDH. Mean ± SD, 10 mice per group, analyzed by one-way analysis of variance multiple comparisons. *P < 0.05, ***P < 0.001, ****P < 0.0001. WT, wild type; (Summarization of the flow cytometry scatter plots was provided in Supplementary Material).