Table 3.

Serum and salivary level of cytokines in patients and controls

	Patients	Controls	P value
Serum
IL-10 (pg/ml)	2.3 (1.2–3.9)	1.65 (0.54–2.9)	0.0003a
TGF-β (ng/ml)	11.3 (3.5–164.1)	7.8 (1.8–26.2)	0.0005a
VEGF (pg/ml	614 (14–1374)	210 (17–712)	0.0004a
TNF-α (ng/ml)	15.9 (4.9–39.1)	12.9 (10.4–19.5)	0.1397
Saliva
IL-10 (pg/ml)	5.9 (2.9–12.7)	2.5 (0.45–5.1)	0.00002a
TGF-β (ng/ml)	24.1 (7–87.9)	14.8 (5.4–30.1)	0.00002a
VEGF (pg/ml)	4321 (1566–7791)	280 (130–980)	0.0000a
TNF-α (ng/ml)	23.1 (15.8–26.0)	11.3 (8.2–17.7)	0.00002a

median, test U Manna Whitney’a

^astatistically significant