Fig. 4

Comparison of cell marker expression and cytotoxicity
(a) Comparison of cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cell marker expression on the 9th and 14th day between cytokine-stimulated dendritic cell (DC)- CIK cell coculture different DC: CIK cell ratios and the CIK cells-only control. (b) Comparison of cytotoxicity between cytokine-stimulated DC- CIK cell coculture and the control (CIK alone) at different CIK: K562 cell ratios on the 9th and 14th day. * indicates p-value < 0.05 compared with the control on the Student t-test. (c) We compared the cell numbers and viability between the antigen with cytokine co-stimulated DC-CIK group and the control group at different ratios of DC:CIK on the 9th and 14th days