Impact of thimerosal on cytokine and chemokine release upon TCR ligation.

<p>Pattern of cytokines and chemokines simultaneously quantified by multiplex bead assay arrays in supernatants from freshly isolated PBMC following 16-hour stimulation with anti-CD3/CD28 mAbs in the absence or presence of three different concentrations of thimerosal. The bars indicate the mean and standard deviation from experiments with three different donors. Asterisks indicate significant <i>P-</i>values (* <0.05, ANOVA test) for comparison with cultures without thimerosal.