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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 3.
Published in final edited form as: J Biol Chem. 2004 Oct 8;280(9):7519–7529. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M407438200

Table III. Composition of BAL fluid 3 h after intratracheal inoculation of live E. coli in PLA2g4a(+/+) and PLA2g4a(−/−) mice in vivo.

Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid PLA2g4a(+/+) PLA2g4a(−/−) n p valuea
PAF (fmol) 670 ± 170 40 ± 80 5 0.002
Cell count (×105) 3.42 ± 1.09 1.33 ± 0.77 6 0.0003
Total protein (mg/liter) 0.17 ± 0.04 0.29 ± 0.08 6 0.013
TNFα (units/ml) 1,181 ± 1,188 1,459 ± 1,401 9 0.66
Interferon-γ (units/ml) 1.64 ± 0.86 1.43 ± 1.19 9 0.67
IL-2 (units/ml) 1.33 ± 0.84 0.73 ± 0.78 9 0.14
IL-4 (units/ml) 3.83 ± 2.36 4.03 ± 0.67 9 0.81
IL-5 (units/ml) 2.68 ± 0.55 2.26 ± 1.41 9 0.42
IL-6 (units/ml) 3.46 ± 0.84 11.57 ± 13.38 9 0.11
IL-10 (units/ml) 77.60 ± 15.28 76.73 ± 27.97 9 0.94
IL-12p70 (units/ml) 8.31 ± 7.01 8.14 ± 4.85 9 0.95
MCP-1 (units/ml) 15.53 ± 5.94 13.66 ± 7.90 9 0.58
a

PLA2g4a(+/+) versus PLA2g4a(−/−) mice, paired Student’s t test (two-tailed and unequal variance).