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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 18.
Published in final edited form as: Free Radic Biol Med. 2005 Sep 1;39(5):619–630. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2005.04.011

Table 3.

Effect of ethanol and antioxidants on cytokine mRNA profiles

Treatment TNF α TGF β IL-1 β IL-4 Il-6
Control 0.8 ± 0.2 0.3 ± 0.1 1.2 ± 0.1 0.59 ± 0.14 10 ± 2
Control + NAC 0.8 ± 0.2 0.3 ± 0.1 1.3 ± 0.2 0.42 ± 0.16 4 ± 1#
EtOH 4.3 ± 1.3* 1.2 ± 0.2* 1.4 ± 0.2 0.20 ± 0.02* 10 ± 1
EtOH + NAC 2.4 ± 0.3* 1.0 ± 0.2* 1.4 ± 0.3 0.15 ± 0.03* 8 ± 2

Data are presented as means ± SE for mRNA transcript expression normalized to expression of the housekeeping gene cyclophilin for N = 8 –13 rats/group.

*

Statistically significant P < 0.05 EtOH vs respective controls.

#

Statistically significant P < 0.05 vs control by two-way ANOVA followed by Student’s Neuman-Keuls post hoc analysis.