Fig. 5
From: Fibrocytes are increased in lung and peripheral blood of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Comparison of circulating fibrocytes with lung fibrocytes. a Intracellular Collagen-1 and surface HLA-DR expression analyzed with flow cytometry and depicted as MFI. For this experiment, we used frozen PBMC of 10 HC, 10 IPF patients and 10 IPAH patients and frozen single cells suspensions of 5 control lungs and 5 explanted IPF lungs. b representative dot-plot of the FCS and SSC characteristics assessed with flow cytometry of circulating and lung fibrocytes (red dots) in the circulation (left panel) and explanted IPF-lung (right panel). Nonparametric two-tailed Mann-Whitney test was used. Data are depicted as median and interquartile. * P < 0.05 *** P < 0.001IPAH = idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, PMN = polymorphonuclear.