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Oral. Health"],"abstract":"<jats:p>The oral mucosa contains distinct tissue sites with immune niches capable of either immunogenic or tolerogenic responses. However, immune cell compositions within oral mucosal tissues at homeostasis have not been well-characterized in human relevant tissues. Non-human primates (NHP) are a major model for the human immune system and oral anatomy, and therefore improved understanding of NHP oral immune cell populations can provide important insights for studying disease pathologies and developing therapies. Herein, we characterize immune cell types of three sites within the oral cavity (buccal, sublingual, lingual tonsil) sampled by biopsy and cytobrush in pigtail macaques. Tonsil biopsies had more T-cells, dendritic cells (DCs), DC subtypes, and CD4+ T-cells than buccal or sublingual biopsies when normalized by tissue mass. Biopsy proved to collect more immune cells than cytobrushes, however frequencies of CD45+ subpopulations were comparable between methods. Live cells isolated from biopsied tonsils had greater CD45+ leukocyte frequencies (mean 31.6 \u00b1 SD 20.4%) than buccal (13.8 \u00b1 4.6%) or sublingual (10.0 \u00b1 5.1%) tissues. T-cells composed more than half of the CD45+ population in sublingual tissue (60.1 \u00b1 9.6%) and the tonsil (54.6 \u00b1 7.5%), but only 31.9 \u00b1 7.2% in buccal samples. CD20+ B-cells composed a greater percentage of CD45+ leukocytes in the tonsil (12.8 \u00b1 9.1%) than buccal (1.2 \u00b1 1.0%) or sublingual tissues (0.8 \u00b1 1.2%). Immune population comparisons are also made between sex and age. 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