Fig. 9

Effect of gender and mouse strain on dendritic cell subsets in the Peyer’s patches. Percentage of lymphoid dendritic cells (a) and their expression of CD80 (b) and CD103 (c) and the percentage of myeloid dendritic cells (d) and their expression of CD80 (e) and CD103 (f) in the Peyer’s patches of male, female, BALB/c, and B6 mice. Lymphoid DCs are expressed as the percentage of CD11b^- cells and myeloid DCs as the percentage of CD11b⁺ cells within the CD11c⁺/F4/80⁻MHC2⁺ population. Results are expressed as the mean + SEM and were tested using two-way ANOVA. Significant strain effects are indicated with an asterisk (*), and significant gender effects are indicated with the letter a in each graph (p < 0.05)