Skip to main content
. 2014 Aug 14;9(8):e104883. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104883

Figure 2. Expression levels of T cell related cytokine mRNA measured by qPCR.

Figure 2

TNF-α, IL-4 and IL-10 were neither detectable in CD4+ T cells of CLBP patients nor in healthy controls. The expression of IFN-γ did not exhibit significant differences in CLBP patients as compared to healthy controls (IFN-γ: 4.19±3.54 in CLBP patients vs. 3.60±2.20 in healthy controls, n.s.; Fig. 2A) whereas IL-23 expression of in CD4+ T cell samples of CLBP patients was found to be significantly decreased (4.88±2.44 in CLBP patients vs. 7.73±3.77 in healthy controls, p = 0.006; Fig. 2B).