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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 22.
Published in final edited form as: Food Chem Toxicol. 2020 Jan 3;136:111114. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2020.111114

Table 2.

Lymph node phenotyping following dermal exposure to PFOA.

Exposure Duration 4 Days 14 Days

PFOA (w/v) 0% 0.5% 1% 2% 0% 0.5% 1% 2%
Cellularity (× 106) 4.50 ± 0.85 5.11 ± 0.66 4.94 ± 0.53 9.02 ± 1.31* 4.69 ± 0.65 3.73 ± 0.29 2.34 ± 0.23* 2.86 ± 0.42**
CD4+ (× 106) 2.34 ± 0.43 2.70 ± 0.35 2.60 ± 0.26 4.70 ± 0.68* 2.57 ± 0.35 2.06 ± 0.19 1.09 ± 0.13** 1.20 ± 0.19**
CD4+ (%) 52.12 ± 0.93 52.94 ± 0.50 52.96 ± 0.65 52.30 ± 1.06 54.82 ± 0.96 55.10 ± 0.78 46.18 ± 1.55* 41.90 ± 1.73**
CD8+ (× 106) 1.09 ± 0.16 1.27 ± 0.16 1.18 ± 0.13 2.19 ± 0.31* 1.11 ± 0.14 1.01 ± 0.61 0.73 ± 0.07 0.87 ± 0.01
CD8+ (%) 24.90 ± 1.07 24.98 ± 0.28 23.84 ± 0.53 24.36 ± 0.23 23.78 ± 0.63 27.36 ± 0.91 31.53 ± 1.39** 30.76 ± 0.30**
B-cells (× 106) 0.72 ± 0.17 0.82 ± 0.11 0.85 ± 0.10 1.44 ± 0.23* 0.87 ± 0.14 0.53 ± 0.04 0.39 ± 0.01* 0.57 ± 0.10
B-cells (%) 15.42 ± 1.23 16.00 ± 0.78 17.18 ± 0.85 15.92 ± 0.96 18.42 ± 1.17 14.32 ± 0.58* 17.28 ± 1.41 19.64 ± 1.17
Dendritic Cells (× 104) 3.02 ± 0.82 3.43 ± 0.44 3.39 ± 0.41 9.24 ± 0.13** 2.36 ± 0.27 2.04 ± 0.19 1.63 ± 0.29 2.14 ± 0.23
Dendritic Cells (%) 0.63 ± 0.08 0.67 ± 0.04 0.69 ± 0.04 1.03 ± 0.08** 0.51 ± 0.03 0.55 ± 0.05 0.68 ± 0.06 0.77 ± 0.07**
Monocytes (× 105) 2.25 ± 0.44 1.82 ± 0.18 1.66 ± 0.19 4.06 ± 0.71* 1.78 ± 0.28 1.36 ± 0.15 1.03 ± 0.16 1.41 ± 0.27
Monocytes (%) 5.20 ± 0.91 3.68 ± 0.29 3.35 ± 0.08* 4.43 ± 0.29 3.80 ± 0.38 3.71 ± 0.46 4.34 ± 0.47 4.87 ± 0.54**

Lymph node immune phenotyping following 4 and 14 days of PFOA exposure. Numbers represent mean (± SE) of 5 mice per group. Levels of statistical significance are denoted (**p < 0.01 and * p < 0.05) as compared to acetone vehicle (0%).