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. 2021 Mar 8;15:997–1011. doi: 10.2147/DDDT.S288369

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Increased Th17-like polarized CD4+ T-cell number after pretreatment with nintedanib. Flow cytometry analyses of CD4+ T cells in CD3+ T-cell culture from healthy donors pretreated for 20 min with or without nintedanib at 10, 30 and 100 nM and stimulated for 24 hours with αCD3/αCD28, αIL-4, αIFN-γ and IL-2. (A) FACS dot plots show one representative experiment of CD4+ gated, IL-17+ cells. (B) Percentage and (C) absolute counts of the total CD4+/IL-17+ T cells in total CD3+ T-cell culture (n=4–6). (D) IL-17A in the cell culture supernatant was determined by ELISA. Bars represent mean values ± standard deviation, *P<0.05.

Abbreviations: ELISA, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; FACS, fluorescence-activated cell sorting; IFN-γ, interferon gamma; IL, interleukin; SSC, side-scatter.