Table 1.

Bronchoalveolar lavage cytokine concentrations in Ureaplasma-infected SP-A−/− mice with and without co-administered exogenous SP-A^*

		No SP-A	Plus SP-A
TNF-α (pg/ml)	6 h	2267 ±119‡§	716 ± 211†‡§
	24 h	217.1 ± 44	376.5 ± 45.2
	48 h	104.0 ± 38.3	198.1 ± 87.9
IL-1β (pg/ml)	6 h	78.4 ± 9.1‡	51.2 ± 12§
	24 h	73.0 ± 3.0‡	87.6 ±11.7
	48 h	33.0 ±6.7	60.9 ± 18.2
KC (pg/ml)	6 h	1677 ± 152‡§	1013 ±228†‡§
	24 h	417 ± 26.8	543 ± 49.7
	48 h	415 ± 32.3	466 ± 94.7
MCP-1 (pg/ml)	6 h	91.0 ± 17.5	53.2 ± 5.0
	24 h	96.4 ± 14.2	79.3 ± 13.5
	48 h	467 ± 276	590 ± 194

^*Data are expressed as mean ± SEM, n=8 each time point per condition

^†p<0.05 vs Ureaplasma-infected SP-A−/− mice, same time point

^‡p <0.05 vs 48 h same condition

^§p <0.05 vs 24 h same condition