Journal: iScience
Article Title: Adaptive immune responses against common viruses are sustained and functional in end-of-life patients
doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112082
Figure Lengend Snippet: Phenotypic changes to virus-specific mCD4+ T cells have limited effect on functional capacity (A) Pie chart generated by SPICE showing the phenotypic profile of virus-specific mCD4+ T cells in end-of-life patients (OC43, n = 12; CMV, n = 16) and elderly controls (OC43, n = 21; CMV, n = 18). The white piece represents cells lacking expression of all included markers. Only donors with a positive antigen-specific response were included. Permutation test. Data are represented as mean frequency. (B) Graphs showing the frequency of virus-specific mCD4+ T cells from end-of-life patients (OC43, n = 12; CMV, n = 16) and elderly controls (OC43, n = 21; CMV, n = 18) expressing the measured phenotypic markers. Only positive donors were included. Mann Whitney U test. (C) Pie chart generated by SPICE showing the functional profile of virus-specific mCD4+ T cells in end-of-life patients (OC43, n = 12; CMV, n = 16) and elderly controls (OC43, n = 21; CMV, n = 18). The white piece represents cells lacking expression of all included markers. Only positive donors were included. Permutation test. Data are represented as mean frequency. (D) Graphs showing the frequency of virus-specific mCD4+ T cells in end-of-life patients (OC43, n = 12; CMV, n = 16) and elderly controls (OC43, n = 21; CMV, n = 18) expressing the measured functional markers. Only positive donors were included. Mann Whitney U test. (E) Graph showing the frequency of CMV-specific mCD4+ T cells expressing markers whose expression was, or close to, significantly different between end-of-life patients who survived ≤30 days ( n = 9) or >30 days ( n = 7) after sampling. Only positive donors were included. Mann Whitney U test.∗ p < 0.05; ∗∗ p < 0.01; ∗∗∗ p < 0.001; ∗∗∗∗ p < 0.0001. The median (black line) is shown when applicable.
Article Snippet: HCoV-OC43 full length spike protein antigen , Sino Biologicals , Cat#40607-V08B.
Techniques: Virus, Functional Assay, Generated, Expressing, MANN-WHITNEY, Sampling