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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 24.
Published in final edited form as: Gut. 2012 Jan 20;62(1):73–82. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2011-301551

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Cytokine gene expression profile of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) ileum compared with non-NEC surgical controls. Cytokine gene expression as determined by quantitative real-time PCR from 15 small bowel specimens of 14 patients with surgical NEC (closed circles) compared with seven tissue-site and gestational age-matched surgical control specimens (open circles) expressed as normalised ratio to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. IL, interleukin; TGF, transforming growth factor; MMP, matrix metalloproteinase; TNF, tumour necrosis factor.