Surprisingly, the presence of USCs increased IL‐6 (2680 ± 611.4 vs 42 081 ± 7028 pg/mL), BAFF (30.42 ± 8.302 vs 2630.4 ± 342.6 pg/mL), APRIL (9.163 ± 3.749 vs 279.4 ± 54.14 pg/mL), and CD40L (162.4 ± 18.83 vs 261.3 ± 21.84 pg/mL) concentrations, although the latter did not reach statistical significance (mean ± SEM, n = 3) (Figure 3D ).
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