Research Article

Fas/FasL Pathway Participates in Regulation of Antiviral and Inflammatory Response during Mousepox Infection of Lungs

Table 2

Percentages of cells expressing IL-10, IL-15, CXCL1, and CXCL9 in the lungs isolated from ECTV-infected Fas (−), FasL (−), and WT (C57BL/6) mice at 3rd, 7th, 10th, and 14th days of infection and uninfected controls. All results represent means from 3 separate experiments ± SEM.

Control Day 3Day 7Day 10Day 14

% IL-10 expressing cells
WT10.23 ± 2.1112.28 ± 2.8811.22 ± 1.017.56 ± 0.340.0
Fas (−)11.07 ± 2.345.2 ± 0.42**4.82 ± 0.22*8.7 ± 0.9911.8 ± 1.78**
FasL (−)8.99 ± 2.676.11 ± 0.41**5.33 ± 0.69*9.8 ± 1.213.1 ± 1.2**

% IL-15 expressing cells
WT0.89 ± 0.135.56 ± 0.447.23 ± 0.477.1 ± 0.671.9 ± 0.55
Fas (−)0.94 ± 0.151.89 ± 0.2*2.1 ± 0.09**1.23 ± 0.01*0.89 ± 0.31
FasL (−)0.97 ± 0.111.99 ± 0.19*1.7 ± 0.18**1.41 ± 0.12*0.79 ± 0.47

% CXCL1 expressing cells
WT5.23 ± 0.6611.45 ± 2.3428.23 ± 1.078.89 ± 0.766.54 ± 0.59
Fas (−)4.59 ± 0.4523.9 ± 3.1*8.7 ± 1.3**7.65 ± 0.85.49 ± 0.87
FasL (−)6.01 ± 0.5528.23 ± 2.66**9.1 ± 1.08**7.05 ± 0.696.3 ± 0.65

% CXCL9 expressing cells
WT2.7 ± 0.223.5 ± 0.316.8 ± 1.225.3 ± 0.433.7 ± 0.33
Fas (−)2.45 ± 0.22.7 ± 0.442.51 ± 0.3 **17.69 ± 2.1*8.45 ± 0.9*
FasL (−)1.99 ± 0.343.5 ± 0.323.09 ± 0.23**19.99 ± 2*7.96 ± 0.88*

Significant differences with ≤ 0.05 and ** ≤ 0.01 by -test in comparison to control, uninfected cultures.