Table 2.

Fibrocyte Percentages in Peripheral Blood and CCL18 and IL-10 Levels in Culture Supernatant (Control vs. SSc-ILD)

	Control (n=27)	SSc-ILD (n=12)	p-value
Fibrocyte percentage	1.13 ± 0.16	1.34 ± 0.25	0.22
Fibrocyte Number (× 106)	0.34 ± 0.12	0.61 ± 0.160	0.031
- LPS, % CD163+	5.817 ± 1.88	7.812 ± 2.120	0.21
+ LPS, % CD163+	7.91 ± 1.805	11.16 ± 1.500	0.19
- LPS, CCL18, pg/ml	67.08 ± 26.43	172.1 ± 143.9	0.6
+ LPS, CCL18, pg/ml	156.4 ± 44.09	703.6 ± 159.3	0.0009
- LPS, IL-10, pg/ml	209.6 ± 56.95	58.42 ± 20.92	0.03
+ LPS, IL-10, pg/ml	370.2 ± 71.29	1388 ± 256.6	0.04