Table 3.

Differences in levels of selected pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines across two time points—at injury and after additional six months post-injury

Cytokines	On injury		After six months		t-test
	M	SE	M	SE	t (3)
IL-6	80.0	16.0	1.7	0.8	4.7*
IL-8	415.0	145.5	85.9	42.9	2.5
IL-4	0.0	0.0	330.7	189.7	-1. 7
IL-10	0.0	0.0	6.0	0.5	-13.0**

* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01

Paired t test for t1-t2 was conducted on log transformed measures (injured only, N = 4)