Cells were blocked with normal sheep serum and stained with monoclonal anti-mouse CD4 antibodies (RM4-5 clone; eBiosciences; San Diego, CA, USA). Intracellular staining of CD4 T cells was performed using anti-mouse IL-10-PE antibody (JES5-16E3 clone), anti-IL-4 PECy7 (11B11 clone), and anti-IL-17 eFluor 660 (eBio17B7 clone) or the respective controls IgG2b
κ PE, IgG1
κ PECy7, and IgG2a
κ eFluor 660 (all against mouse proteins, from eBioscience). Treg cells were characterized by staining for CD4, CD25, and Foxp3, according to the manufacturer's instructions (
Mouse Treg Staining Kit, eBiosciences).
Pulmonary myeloid dendritic cells (CD11c
+CD11b
+Gr1
−B220
−) were characterized as previously [26 (
link)], using anti-Gr1 FITC (RB6-8C5 clone)
anti-CD11c PE (N418 clone),
anti-CD11b PEcy7 (M1/70 clone), and anti-B220 APC (RA3-6B2 clone) or the respective controls IgG2b
κ FITC, IgG armenian hamster PE, IgG2b
κ PECy7, and IgG2a
κ APC (all against mouse proteins, from eBiosciences).
All data were acquired in a
FACSCalibur flow cytometer (BD Biosciences Immunocytometry Systems, San Jose, CA, USA) and analyzed using the FlowJo X 10 and 7.6.5 software (Tree Star Inc., Ashland, OR, USA). Percentages of total cells were presented in bar graphs.
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