Figure 1. Expression of mucosal IL33 is increased in acute ulcerative colitis.
Panel (a) shows an increase in mucosal mRNA expression for selected cytokines from colonic biopsies comparing acute ulcerative colitis (n = 29) with a healthy control group (n = 21). Panel (b) shows the same cytokine profile for patients with ulcerative colitis (n = 29) with a pairwise comparison of biopsies taken during active disease and at disease remission. No change was detected for IL33, IL1RL1 and IL4 (p > 0.05). Results for (a,b) are given as fold change (2−∆∆CT) with mean values, and the upper limit of the 95% confidence interval as error bars. Statistical analysis was performed using Mann U Whitney Test (a) and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test (b) with *p-value < 0.01, **p-value < 0.001 shown in panels. Panels (c) and (d) show individual values of relative gene expression (2−∆CT) of IL33 and IL1RL1, respectively, for acute disease and normal controls, with the horizontal line representing the median value.
