Table 2.
Cytokine | Sham (n = 5) | Combined CCI (n = 14) | Pain and disability (n = 5) | Pain and transient disability (n = 4) | Pain alone (n = 5) |
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IL-1β | 65.3 ± 10.4 | 98.9 ± 8.8 | 102.1 ± 16.6 | 111.1 ± 24.9 | 86.0 ± 6.1 |
IL-6 | 35.7 ± 6.8 | 82.5 ± 4.7*** | 90.2 ± 9.9*** | 78.9 ± 12.4 | 77.5 ± 2.2 |
IL-10 | 255.4 ± 44.3 | 251.1 ± 18.0 | 217.2 ± 21.0 | 310.6 ± 34.2 | 237.4 ± 31.6 |
IL-17A | 98.6 ± 17.0 | 89.0 ± 6.6 | 77.3 ± 5.0 | 106.7 ± 18.1 | 86.5 ± 10.6 |
IL-18 | 117.6 ± 13.6 | 108.1 ± 4.9 | 98.7 ± 6.9 | 123.5 ± 9.7 | 105.1 ± 7.5 |
TNF | 30.0 ± 3.2 | 28.7 ± 1.3 | 27.4 ± 2.2 | 30.9 ± 2.8 | 28.3 ± 2.4 |
IFN-γ | 47.1 ± 10.8 | 46.7 ± 4.9 | 42.2 ± 6.0 | 56.7 ± 13.6 | 43.1 ± 5.1 |
MCP-1 | 83.1 ± 4.0 | 149.0 ± 7.6*** | 152.1 ± 21.9** | 136.8 ± 7.8 | 155.4 ± 3.8** |
Statistically significant differences compared to sham are indicated by *P <0.05, **P <0.01 and ***P <0.001. All significant differences have been corrected for family-wise error rate with the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure, with a false discovery rate of q <0.05