Table 2. Serum cytokines in diet groups, excluding animals with liver massesa,b.
HFWD (n = 8) | HFWD-Ca (n = 9) | |
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IL-1β (pg/ml) | OOR<15 | OOR<15 |
IL-6 (pg/ml) | 5 ± 6 | 12 ± 26 |
KC (pg/ml) | 55 ± 38 | 56 ± 24 |
MCP-1 (pg/ml) | 166 ± 76 | 113 ± 82 (p = 0.03005)* |
TNF-α (pg/ml)c | 2.09 ± 2.49 | 0.94 ± 0.86 |
OOR< = Out of Range Below
a 8 of the 11 non-mass HFWD and 9 of the 14 non-mass HFWD-Ca samples had sufficient serum left after clinical chemistry to conduct serum cytokine biomarker analysis.
b Values are mean +/- S.D.
c Values for TNF- α are based on 2 samples in each group, rest were OOR<0.33.
* significantly different by Mann Whitney U.