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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Immunol. 2009 Jun 15;182(12):8056–8062. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.0801323

Table I.

Plasma IL-6 levels in VILIa

WT WT/WT WT/KO KO/WT KO + rmIL-6 WT/WT/WT WT/KO/WT
Mean (95% CI) (pg/ml) 3034 (2008) 1222 (597) 1590 (952) 156b (83) 3277 (3183) 2558 (2216) 1577 (1204)
a

N = 6–9 mice in each group. WT, WT C57BL/6 mice; WT/WT, WT mice irradiated and reconstituted with bone marrow from WT mice; WT/KO, WT mice irradiated and reconstituted with bone marrow from IL6KO mice; KO/WT, IL6KO mice irradiated and reconstituted with bone marrow from WT mice; KO + rmIL-6, IL6KO mice pretreated with rmIL-6; WT/WT/WT, WT/WT mice given WT neutrophils immediately before mechanical ventilation; and WT/KO/WT, WT/KO mice given WT neutrophils immediately before mechanical ventilation.

b

p < 0.05 compared with WT/WT and WT/KO.