Fig. 1.
Concentrations of the CXCL16, IL17 and BMP-2 plasma in middle-aged adult and elderly women. The concentrations (pg/ml) of chemokine CXCL16 plasma (a) The bone morphogenetic protein (BMP-2) (b) the inteleukin-17 (IL-17) (c) from middle-aged adult and elderly women presenting eutrophic, overweight and obesity conditions were measured through ELISA. The individual results were plotted in the graphic through mean ± SEM. # P < 0.05 when all groups were different from the eutrophic middle-aged adult or elderly subjects