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. 2021 Mar 26;14(3):605–614. doi: 10.1038/s41385-021-00382-x

Fig. 1. Frequencies of CD8+ T cells and CD8+ T cell differentiation increase with age.

Fig. 1

a Representative flow cytometric plots of CD8+ T cells and CD8+ T cell differentiation in fetal (F; blue), infant (I; purple), and adult (A; gray) intestinal tissues. b Frequencies (%) of CD3+ CD8+ cells. c The absolute cell counts per cm2 of CD8+ T cells. d Frequencies (%) of CD8+ T cell subsets determined by CCR7 versus CD45RA. e Representative histograms of CD27 and CD28-expression by CD8+ Tem cells and the frequencies (%) of CD27 and CD28 on CD8+ Tem cells. Error bars represent median percentage ± IQR. The figure represents intestinal epithelium (b, d, e: fetal n = 7, infant n = 9, adult n = 5; c: fetal n = 5, infant n = 6, adult n = 5) and lamina propria (b, d, e: fetal n = 9, infant n = 9, adult n = 10; c: fetal n = 8, infant n = 8, adult n = 6) tissues. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, ****P < 0.0001, all Mann–Whitney U analyses.