Fig. 2
From: Whole blood stimulation provides preliminary evidence of altered immune function following SRC
Latent variables of blood cytokine levels in response to lipopolysaccharide and resiquimod stimulation. Posterior densities of latent variable loadings for cytokines in all athletes (N = 52) following 24 h stimulation with lipopolysaccharide (LPS, 100 ng/mL) (left panel, red), or resiquimod (R848, 1uM) (right panel, green). The x axis shows the posterior correlation of each cytokine to the latent variable in each stimulation condition, while the grey density plots represent the prior distributions. Density plots were derived from 6000 posterior draws, with dots representing the mean of the posterior densities, and the thick and thin lines representing the 70% and 90% intervals, respectively