Fig. 8From: Interleukin-15 is required for immunosurveillance and immunoprevention of HER2/neu-driven mammary carcinogenesisInfiltrating lymphocytes in mammary glands and tumors from NeuT mice. Levels of NKp46, CD8 and CD4 transcripts were quantified by real-time PCR in preneoplastic mammary tissue from 6-week-old untreated NeuT mice, tumors from 26-week-old untreated NeuT mice and tumor-free mammary glands from 26-week-old vaccinated NeuT mice. The ΔΔCt method was applied using GAPDH as the housekeeping gene and mammary glands from 6-week-old BALB/c mice as reference. * = p <0.05 at Student’s t test, ns = not significant. IL15KO/NeuT BALB/c mice transgenic for rat HER2/neu oncogene and knocked out for IL-15, NeuT BALB/c mice transgenic for rat HER2/neu oncogeneBack to article page