Table 3.
Effect of Pongamia pinnata on pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines.
| Cytokines | Day post surgery | Sample |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| DMSO | Pongamia pinnata leaf | Vitamin E | ||
| TNF-alpha (pg/ml) | 1st day | 147.4 ± 23.9 | 151.0 ± 23.8 | 13.5 ± 2.8 |
| 8th day | 254.4 ± 62.9 | 159.3 ± 32.5 | 129.5 ± 20.9 | |
| IL-6 (pg/ml) | 1st day | 81.8 ± 22.31 | 87.0 ± 9.8 | 24.0 ± 18.5 |
| 8th day | 92.5 ± 24.8 | 72.0 ± 22.8 | 22.9 ± 30.2 | |
| IL-10 (pg/ml) | 1st day | 389.6 ± 155.3 | 1078.1 ± 169.2 | 885.5 ± 220.6 |
| 8th day | 595.7 ± 114.9 | 899.0 ± 272.3 | 811.9 ± 220.3 | |