Interleukin-15 Affects Patient Survival through Natural Killer Cell Recovery after Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas
Figure 1
Scatterplot comparing IL-15 and NK-15 at day 15 post-APHSCT. Strong positive correlation was identified between IL-15 and NK-15 post-APHSCT (Spearman correlation rho factor, , 001). Only 11 patients had IL-15 level higher than 500 pg/mL. To rule out the possibility that these 11 patients made skewed the data resulting in the strong correlation between IL-15 and NK-15, we truncated and analyzed the data for the 39 patients that had IL-15 levels between 0 and 500 pg/mL. A strong positive correlation was still observed between IL-15 and NK-15 (Spearman correlation rho factor, , 002).
