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Table 1 Summary of clinical studies of PD-1/PD-L1 in human specimens

From: Inhibitor of PD-1/PD-L1: a new approach may be beneficial for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Reference setting

PD-1/PD-L1

IPF patients/normal or other disease numbers

Sample

Method

Expression change

Jovanovic [66]

mPD-L1

sPD-L1

12/–

23/–

Lung

Plasma

IHC

LISA

Upregulation

Elevation

Celada [67]

PD-1

PD-L1

10/5

25/24

10/5

Lung

Peripheral blood

IHC

FCM

IHC

Upregulation

Upregulation

Upregulation

Guo [23]

PD-L1

3/3

Lung

IF

Upregulation

Cui [76]

PD-L1

11/3

Lung

Mass cytometry

Upregulation

Bonham [68]

PD-1

41/13

Peripheral blood

FCM

No change

Wang [69]

PD-1

PD-L1

23//25

23//25

Peripheral blood

Peripheral blood

FCM

Upregulation

Upregulation

Milenkovic [70]

sPD-L1

30/30

Plasma

ELISA

Elevation

Guyard [71]

PD-L1

18/13

(all complicated lung cancer)

Lung

IHC

Upregulation

Kronborg-White [72]

mPD-L1

43/55

Lung

IHC

Upregulation

Asai [73]

PD-1

18/21

Peripheral blood

FCM

Upregulation

Li [74]

PD-L1

16/8

8/10

12/12

Lung

BALF

Serum

IHC

ELISA

ELISA

Upregulation

Elevation

Elevation

Ahmadvand [75]

CD274

PD-1

9/12

Lung

FCM/RT-PCR

Upregulation

Upregulation

  1. IPF idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, PD-1 programmed cell death 1, PD-L1 programmed death-ligand 1, IF immunofluorescence, FCM flow cytometry, mPD-L1 membrane programmed death-ligand 1, sPD-L1 soluble programmed death-ligand 1, IHC immunohistochemistry, WB Western blot, ELISA enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, Th17 T helper 17, Tfh cells T follicular helper cells, AT2 Alveolar epithelial type 2 cells