“…Antibodies used were CD3, CD4, CD8, CD25, CD28, CD62L, CD71, CD80, CD45RA (BD Bioscience, Mississauga, ON, Canada) and OX12 (Cedarlane, Hornby, ON, Canada); Streptavidin QR (Sigma, Oakville, ON, Canada) was added to all biotin-labelled antibodies. The percentage of cells expressing each antibody marker was determined by flow cytometry (FacScan, Becton Dickinson, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) (Field et al, 2000). It was not always possible to perform every phenotype assay on each rat because of the variation in total yield of tissue; n for each assay is indicated in result tables.…”