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. 2016 May 9;6:25534. doi: 10.1038/srep25534

Figure 8. Pro-inflammatory cytokines and growth factors, IL-8, IL-16, and stem cell factor (SCF) correlated with hormone levels and KC severity.

Figure 8

(A) IL-8, (B) IL-16, and (C) SCF expression plotted relative to DHEA-S levels. IL-8, IL-16, and SCF expression relative to (D–F) KC grade, (G–I) Maximum corneal curvature (Kmax), (J–L) Minimum central corneal thickness (CCtmin) measured in microns. Best-fit linear line plotted with 90% confidence intervals (dotted lines). Expression of IL-8, IL-16, and SCF measured using densitometry from a microarray. n = 7 for HC and n = 9 for KC. Clinical features (Kmax, and CCtmin) were not collected for all HC and therefore were excluded from (D–L).