Table 4

Phenotypic characterisation of cytokine secreting cells

No of secreting cells/105lymphocytes
IFN-γ IL-4
IEL LPL IEL LPL
Untreated1871791175272
CD8 and CD4 depleted0000
Untreated11115111815397
CD8 depleted7143481925287
Untreated596134409101
CD4 depleted28000
CD4 enrichedND130ND55
  • Results shown for IFN-γ and IL-4, for IEL and LPL, and for the three different experimental protocols were obtained from different cell suspensions and are representative of one of three different experiments (untreated/depleted) for each set of data.