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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+


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