Fig. 1

GH promotes thymocyte adhesion to laminin. Thymocytes were exposed to GH (100 ng/mL) for 1 h and were then allowed to adhere on BSA or laminin substrata. a Absolute number of adhered cells, revealing that GH increases the number of adhered thymocytes on BSA and laminin substrata (n = 6/group). b Representative histograms demonstrate VLA-6 expression on thymocytes after 1 h of adhesion (n = 6/group). Filled curves represent cells positive for VLA and white curve represents the Ig isotype control. Values are expressed as mean ± SEM. *p ≤ 0.05 and ***p < 0.001