A High-Salt Diet Disturbs the Development and Function of Natural Killer Cells in Mice

Figure 5

HSD decreases NK cell proliferation but does not disturb apoptosis. Representative flow cytometry profiles of Ki67⁺ splenic NK cells from control and HSD-fed mice during different developmental stages (a). The percentage of Ki67⁺ NK cells (b). Representative flow cytometry profiles of annexin V⁺ cells from control and HSD-fed mice during different developmental stages (c). The percentage of annexin V⁺ NK cells (d). All the data represent at least three independent experiments. Data are shown as the . Unpaired Student’s -tests (two-tailed) were performed using the Prism software. A value of <0.05 was considered significant. , .

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