CD8A and acute respiratory distress syndrome: t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) plots showed that the distribution of the major subpopulations of immune cells in ARDS were alveolar macrophages, Mac1a and Mac1b macrophages, neutrophils, CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes, and natural killer (NK) and NKT cells (Figure 3A).