Table 2.
Results from the Principal Component Analyses
| Contribution of individual cell type to the component (%) | Coefficients with correlation between cells type and components | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Component | Component | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Tc cells | 2.35 | 1.32 | 39.04 | 41.08 | -0.23 | 0.15 | -0.66 | 0.61 |
| Th1 cells | 0.34 | 25.46 | 19.09 | 0.80 | -0.09 | -0.65 | -0.46 | -0.08 |
| Th17 cells | 13.66 | 0.23 | 13.48 | 7.21 | -0.56 | 0.06 | -0.39 | -0.25 |
| nTregs | 0.07 | 32.39 | 0.15 | 0.01 | 0.04 | -0.73 | 0.04 | -0.01 |
| amTregs | 25.31 | 4.81 | 7.57 | 0.03 | -0.76 | -0.28 | 0.29 | 0.02 |
| umTregs | 20.66 | 13.33 | 5.55 | 1.18 | -0.69 | -0.47 | 0.24 | 0.10 |
| Dendritic cells | 18.88 | 1.79 | 0.64 | 0.08 | -0.66 | 0.17 | -0.08 | 0.03 |
| NK cells | 7.49 | 8.42 | 4.59 | 39.46 | -0.42 | 0.37 | -0.23 | -0.59 |
| Monocytes | 11.24 | 12.26 | 9.89 | 10.14 | -0.51 | 0.45 | 0.33 | 0.30 |
Important contribution to the component was defined as contribution above the average ~11.1%. Correlation coefficients >0.50 were considered strong. Bold text represent values of important contribution and strong correlation coefficients, respectively
Tc CD8+ cytotoxic T cells, Th1 T helper cell type 1, Th17 T helper cell type 17, nTregs naïve T regulatory cells, amTregs activated memory T regulatory cells, umTregs unactivated memory T regulatory cells, NK cells natural killer cells