Table 2.

Serum cytokines in 19 blood donors who spontaneously cleared HCV infection compared with 21 donors who remained infected.

Serum cytokine pg/mL (mean ± SD)	Resolved infection (N = 19)	Chronic infection (N = 21)	p value
Eotaxin	60.99 ± 34.43	54.11 ± 21.39	0.8911
FGF-2	13.90 ± 21.39	1.29 ± 0.55	0.0115
IL-1beta	25.32 ± 17.58	13.68 ± 4.38	0.0249
IL-1RA	1228 ± 618.10	528.60 ± 233.40	0.0008
IL-5	50.91 ± 40.75	30.18 ± 2.00	0.7596
IL-7	13.24 ± 2.45	12.54 ± 7.50	0.9300
IL-6	45.43 ± 60.51	1.31 ± 0.32	0.0036
IL-8	0.54 ± 0.34	0.36 ± 0.36	0.0832
IL-10	15.56 ± 45.89	0.54 ± 1.10	0.5232
IL-12p70	18.36 ± 18.12	12.34 ± 4.44	0.7596
IP-10	55.14 ± 35.10	82.33 ± 87.48	0.2846
MIP-1 alpha	4.78 ± 7.27	4.86 ± 7.18	0.9366
PDGF-BB	365.40 ± 469.10	158.90 ± 171.90	0.8221
TNF-alpha	23.56 ± 19.92	11.22 ± 5.82	0.1084
G-CSF	116.4 ± 83.88	67.91 ± 21.31	0.2617
GM-CSF	16.43 ± 27.72	0.52 ± 0.29	0.0860
IFN-gamma	16.05 ± 32.94	1.91 ± 0.15	0.0453