Treg cells regulated Th17 response in HBV-LF .
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Compared to HC subjects (n = 30), Th17-associated cytokines such as IL-17, IL-21 and IL-22 significantly increased in serum of CHB patients (n = 77), however Treg-associated inhibitory cytokines IL-10 and TGF-β are similar in HC subjects and CHB patients.
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Hepatic Stellate Cells Proliferation Assay
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HSCs were directly co-cultured with human CD4+, CD4+CD25+ and CD4+CD25− cells from age-and-sex matched HC and CHB subjects or incubated with human recombinant cytokine IL-17 at various concentrations (1, 3, 5 ng/mL) for 6 days.
- Cell proliferation of HSCs was monitored by a Cell-IQ system , which is a live cell imaging and analysis platform.
- Cell-IQ automatically recognizes cell type and records corresponding cell number every 15 minutes.
- Four high-power fields (hpf, 400×magnification) per well were chosen for consecutive cell monitoring and proliferation analysis.
- The cell proliferation rate was calculated using the following formula: (mean cell number in each hpf after incubation with stimulants)/(mean cell number in each hpf before incubation)×100%−1.
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Regulation of membrane-bound and sCD127.
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PBMCs were cultured for 24 h in PMI 1640 supplemented with 5% FCS with the following stimuli: anti-C3/C28–coated beads (1:100 bead/cell ratio), IL-2 (100 U/mL ), IL-7 (10 ng/mL& ), interferon-γ (IFN-γ; 10 ng/mL ), IL-4 (10 ng/mL), IL-17 (10 ng/mL& ), TNF-α (10 ng/mL& ), IL-10 (10 ng/mL& ), IL-12 (10 ng/mL), rapamycin (sirolimus, 10 ng/mL), FK506 (tacrolimus, 10 ng/mL ), mycophenolate mofetil (MMF, 1 μg/mLoche), daclizumab (1 μg/mLoche), high glucose (33.3 mmol/L), and insulin (100 U/mL).
- PBMCs were subsequently stained with anti-CD4 Pacific blue (clone RPA-T4 ), anti-CD8 allophycocyanin-Cy7 (clone ), and anti-CD127 phycoerythrin (clone ), and surface expression of CD127 in gated CD4+ and CD8+ T cells was analyzed by flow cytometry.
- Supernatant from PBMC cultures was taken to measure sCD127 concentration.
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Elevated frequencies of Th17 cells and reduced frequencies of Th1 cells in freshly isolated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMCs) from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients.
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(c) Total RNA was isolated from CD4+ T cells obtained from AML patients and HDs and reverse transcribed into cDNA and subsequently real time polymerase chain reaction for IL-17A and IFN-γ.
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