Fig. 2.
Fever-range WBH stimulates lymphocyte adhesion to PNAd and MAdCAM-1 on HEV.
Splenic lymphocytes were isolated from BALB/c mice treated for 6 hours with WBH and from normothermic mice. The cells were then tested for adhesion to PLN and PP HEV (tissues from non–heat-treated mice) in a frozen-section adhesion assay under mechanical shear conditions. The specificity of lymphocyte-HEV adhesion was determined using the indicated function-blocking mAbs. Values represent the mean ± SE of 3 independent experiments. The differences between adhesion of splenocytes from normothermic control mice and WBH-treated mice were significant (P < .0001 [*] by unpaired 2-tailed Studentt test).