Diagram showing the events associated with consuming a single dose of APR extract when compared to consuming a single dose of placebo.
The effects of consuming the APR extract on immune surveillance were highly selective, and were limited to innate effector cell types, including monocytes, NKT cells, CD8+ T cells, and γδT cells. NK cell numbers decreased, but there was not a change in CD25 expression on NK cells, and only a mild decrease reaching statistical trend in CD69 expression on NK cells was observed (