ITGAX and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Culture of Mtb-infected control mouse NK cells with autologous CD11c+ cells in the presence of γ-Mtb resulted in 251.5 ± 65.1 pg/ml IL-6; this increased to 556.9 ± 52.5 pg/ml (p = 0.02) in NK cells and CD11c+ cells from Mtb-infected T2DM mice (Fig 7E).