Research Article

Decreased Regulatory T Cells in Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Lesions: Imbalance between Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Cells in Atherosclerosis

Table 3

Antibodies used for immunohistochemical analyses.

AntibodiesSourceDilutionSpecificity

CD86Milteyi Biotec1 : 25APCs
CD68Dako1 : 50Macrophages
S-100Dako 1 : 500Glial Cells, ependyma, Schwann cells, mDCs
FascinDako1 : 100mDCs
CD83Serotec1 : 40Mature mDCs
CD209BD Pharmingen1 : 100Immature mDCs
CD304Miltenyi Biotec1 : 100pDCs
CD123Serotec1 : 100pDCs
HLA-DRDako1 : 25APCs
CD3Miltenyi Biotec1 : 100T cells
CD4Dako1 : 50T helper cells
CD8Dako 1 : 200Cytotoxic T cells
CD161Serotec1 : 20Natural killer cells
CD25Invitrogen1 : 20Activated B and T cells, regulatory T cells
CD69Ab cam1 : 100Activated B and T cells, regulatory T cells (early activation marker), macrophages, and platelets
FoxP3BioLegend 1 : 20Regulatory T cells
CD34Dako1 : 50Endothelial cells
CCR4BioLegend 1 : 50Chemokine receptor of DC, T cells, and B cells
CCR-6R&D1 : 80Chemokine receptor of immature DCs

APC: antigen presenting cell; mDCs: monocytoid dendritic cells; pDCs: plasmacytoid dendritic cells.