homeostasis/metabolism
• when treated with 0.3 mg/kg of FTY720 (a sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor agonist) no reduction in total blood lymphocyte numbers is seen unlike in controls where lymphocyte numbers are reduced by 80%
• FTY720 also fails to ablate B cells in the marginal zone of the spleen or deplete lymphocytes from the efferent sinuses of the lymph nodes unlike in controls
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immune system
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• in the absence of treatment total lymphocyte cellularity and fractional distribution is not different from wild-type
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