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Table I.
Expression of CD16 on total ovine blood lymphocytes and different lymphocyte subsets. PBMC were double labelled with anti-human CD16 (clone KD1 antibody) and anti-CD4, pan T cell (-CD5), B cell (-BB4), γδ Tcell (-TcR1-N7) mAbs. N = number of animals investigated.
CD16+ | CD16+/CD5+ | CD16+/BB4+ | CD16+/TcR1-N7+ | CD16+/CD4+ | ||
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Ovine | Bovine | Ovine | ||||
Median (%) | 9.1 | 10.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.04 | 0.3 |
Range | (7.5–12.6) | (8.1–11) | (0.1–0.3) | (0.04–0.4) | (0.00–0.18) | (0.06–0.5) |
N | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 |