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Table 2 Cytokine secretion profile of mature DCs.

From: Short-term cultured, interleukin-15 differentiated dendritic cells have potent immunostimulatory properties

 

short-term IL-15 DCs

long-term IL-15 DCs

IL-4 DCs

 

cc-mDC

TLR-mDC

cc-mDC

TLR-mDC

cc-mDC

 

(pg/mL)

(pg/mL)

(pg/mL)

(pg/mL)

(pg/mL)

Typical T h 1-polarizing

     

IL-12p70

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

IFN-γ

0 ± 0

3671 ± 394

0 ± 0

4510 ± 686

0 ± 0

IL-2

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

Typical T h 2-polarizing

     

IL-4

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

IL-5

9 ± 5

6 ± 6

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

11 ± 6

IL-10

0 ± 0

4 ± 4

0 ± 0

50 ± 50

0 ± 0

Pro-inflammatory

     

TNF-α

281 ± 124

1132 ± 551

1078 ± 268

4424 ± 1446

39 ± 16

TNF-β

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

0 ± 0

IL-1β

60 ± 55

0 ± 0

146 ± 64

55 ± 33

71 ± 45

IL-6

1065 ± 102

8163 ± 3246

1660 ± 78

13391 ± 2732

793 ± 51

IL-8

9914 ± 986

6109 ± 2468

3876 ± 483

2061 ± 109

9495 ± 2289

  1. Abbreviations used: short-term: 3-day culture; long-term: 7-day culture; cc-mDC: conventional maturation cocktail (TNF-α, IL1β, IL-6 and PGE2); TLR-mDC: TLR7/8 agonist-based maturation cocktail (R-848, IFN-γ, TNF-α and PGE2). Results are expressed as mean ± SEM (pg/mL).