FIG. 5.

Comparison of serum cytokine profiles using cluster analysis of normalized values. The levels of all cytokines measured, or measured separately for IL-12p70, IFN-γ, and IL-2, were significantly higher in the placebo (PLB)-treated group than in the ADV-treated group. At TW16, the difference was even more apparent between PLB- and ADV-treated groups, while there was no difference between the two ADV-treated subgroups with or without HBeAg loss (group 1 [G1] or group 2 [G2], respectively). Error bars indicate standard deviations.