Fig. 4
From: Deficiency of innate-like T lymphocytes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Gene expression levels of iNKT (a) and MAIT (b) cell-restricted invariant TCRs in healthy controls (HC), stable COPD and AECOPD patients. a iNKT-cell specific Vα24-Jα18 (JαQ) TCR gene expression levels were decreased in COPD patients. b MAIT-cell specific Vα7.2-Jα33 TCR gene expression was reduced in stable COPD and AECOPD patients. Data present here were derived from sixteen HC, ten stable COPD and ten AECOPD blood donors. Boxes show interquartile ranges (IQR), whiskers represent lowest and highest values, horizontal lines indicate median, and circles stand for outliers of 1.5 IQR. Asterisks represent significant p (* < 0.05, *** < 0.001) values. A.U.: arbitrary units