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. 2020 Jul 10;10:11423. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-68347-x

Figure 1.

Figure 1

PPARβ/δ silencing increases the immunoregulatory properties of MSC. (AF) Naïve T-CD4 murine cells induced to differentiate into Th1 or Th17 cells were labelled with Cell Trace Violet (CTV) and cultured in the presence or absence (white bars) of either PPARβ/δ+/+ (yellow bars) MSC or MSC deficient for PPARβ/δ (MSC PPARβ/δ−/−) (brown bars). On the left panel, grey histograms represent Th1 (A) or Th17 (D) cells proliferation alone while yellow and brown histograms represent cells co-cultured with either MSC PPARβ/δ+/+ or MSC PPARβ/δ−/− respectively. Representative Dot Plot panels of IFNγ producing-Th1 cells (B) or IL17 producing Th17 cells (E) cocultured or not with either MSC PPARβ/δ+/+ or MSC PPARβ/δ−/−. Representative dot plot of Treg generation of Th1 (C) or Th17 cells (F) cocultured or not with either MSC PPARβ/δ+/+ or MSC PPARβ/δ−/−. (G) IL-6 production, (H) PDL1 expression level and (I) TGFβ1 production by MSC PPARβ/δ+/+ or MSC PPARβ/δ−/− pre-activated or not with pro-inflammatory cytokines. Statistics: non- paired Kruskal–Wallis test. *p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001. Unless otherwise indicated, p values refer to values obtained for either CD4-Th1 or CD4-Th17 when cultured alone.