Fig. 7

CD4⁺ T cells from malnourished mice produce less IL-2 and IL-10. Adults C57Bl/6 mice were malnourished through food limited by only allowing mice access to food for 4 h daily for 3 weeks, while controls had unlimited access to food. All mice were infected with a 1 × 10⁵ dose of P. chabaudi AS and sacrificed at day 9 post-infection. Summary graphs show a Percent and b Number of IL-2 producing CD4⁺ T cells. c Percent and d numbers of IL-10 producing CD4⁺ T cells determined using intracellular cytokine staining. Data represents an average of 5 mice per group and error bars represent SEM. Significance was determined by two-tailed t test with 95% confidence, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.001, **p < 0.0001, n.s no significance difference, Mal malnourished