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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 27.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2010 Mar 27;24(6):819–831. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3283367836

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Figure 1

Comparison of plasma cytokine concentrations in women (n=14) before infection (median 25.5 weeks pre-infection) and during acute HIV-1 infection (median 6 weeks post-infection). A) Absolute IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α, IL-8, fractalkine, IP-10, IL-10, IL-7 and IL-2 concentrations were elevated in women with acute HIV-1 infection relative to concentrations pre-infection. Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test was used for matched comparisons. P-values <0.05 were considered significant and highlighted. *Did not remain significant following false discovery rate adjustment for multiple comparisons. ** Remained significant following adjustment for multiple comparisons. B) Fold upregulation in plasma cytokine concentrations following infection. P-values <0.005 remained significant following adjustment for multiple comparisons (red bars). Blue bars (P<0.05) indicate cytokines that were significantly upregulated before adjustment for multiple comparisons. IQR: Interquartile range.