TABLE 2.
Overall detection of cytokines/chemokinesa
| Cytokine or chemokine | No. of placental plasma samples | Concn (pg/ml) |
Mean (SD) lower detection limit (pg/ml) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Median | Range | |||
| Eotaxin | 400 | 193.9 | 194.6 | 6.0–513.6 | 1.36 (0.58) |
| IFN-γ | 400 | 46.8 | 23.0 | 2.1–415.8 | 1.33 (0.20) |
| IL-10 | 400 | 70.2 | 36.8 | 1.0–853.1 | 0.81 (0.35) |
| IL-12p70 | 400 | 21.8 | 15.1 | 0.4–102.5 | 1.01 (0.35) |
| IL-13 | 400 | 77.8 | 63.2 | 2–250.2 | 6.37 (1.77) |
| IL-1β | 374 | 1,314.7 | 73.7 | 1.3–9,968.3 | 0.30 (0.05) |
| IL-2 | 400 | 20.2 | 11.9 | 0.9–153.8 | 0.34 (0.05) |
| IL-4 | 400 | 11.6 | 7.7 | 0.2–54.4 | 0.78 (0.53) |
| IL-5 | 400 | 11.1 | 6.3 | 0.1–45.8 | 0.28 (0.06) |
| IL-8 | 243 | 2,567.4 | 1,531.2 | 11.2–9,982.1 | 0.26 (0.04) |
| IP-10 | 399 | 923.1 | 491.0 | 23.5–9,428.5 | 2.74 (0.69) |
| MCP-1 | 390 | 1,337.7 | 478.7 | 23.1–9,455.7 | 0.37 (0.05) |
| MCP-4 | 400 | 361.7 | 311.3 | 16.1-1,572.2 | 3.54 (1.41) |
| MIP-1β | 396 | 4,857.2 | 740.2 | 17.7–39,287.4 | 2.43 (1.04) |
| TARC | 400 | 993.3 | 669.8 | 23.9–17,573.5 | 5.67 (3.97) |
| TNF-α | 400 | 211.7 | 46.6 | 2.6–5,660.0 | 0.67 (0.28) |
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The mean and median concentrations and the range of concentrations of each cytokine/chemokine, along with the lower detection limits of each assay, are displayed.