Figure 2

Dexa-and VitD3-DCs exhibit a semi-mature phenotype as compared with Mat-DCs. (A) DC expression of maturation-associated markers of immature DCs (Im-DCs), mature DCs (Mat-DCs) and tol-DCs. Surface expression of CD86-FITC, CD83-APC and HLA-DR-APCH7 staining on MDDCs. Each histogram is representative of 15 independent experiments. Isotype controls are shown in grey. (B) Results are mean fluorescence intensities from n = 11 cultures in the presence of Dexa, n = 15 cultures with Rapa-DCs and n = 11 cultures with VitD3-DCs. (paired t-test. * p ≤ 0.05; ** p ≤ 0.001; ***≤ 0.0001).