Fig. 3
From: Endometriosis immune microenvironment timing shifts: from immune escape to immune exhaustion

shows that as the disease progresses, cytokines that cause the depletion of NK cells and CD8 + T cells, such as IL-10, TGF-β, and PDL1, keep increasing, while IFN-γ and TNF-α, which activate immune killer cytokines, keep decreasing.