Table 2.

Concentration of anti-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines in EDTA plasma and RBCs in one millilitre of whole blood with correction for white blood cell (WBC) and platelet contamination (n = 10), data are presented as mean ± SD.

Cytokine	Plasma			RBCs					WBC & platelet contribution
	Subjects positive for cytokine	pg/mL of whole blood		Subjects positive for cytokine	pg/mL of whole blood		Corrected for WBC contamination (pg/mL)		pg/mL of total		Subjects positive for cytokine
		Concentration	SD		Concentration	SD	Concentration	SD	Concentration	SD
Anti-inflammatory
IL-1ra	9/10	17.1	6.9	4/10	732.6	360.8	463.3	347.6	1,048.4	723.6	10/10
sIL-2rα	10/10	26.8	6.8	7/10	257.9	69.6	254.7	70.5	5.2	3.9	8/10
IL-4	8/10	0.5	0.4	4/10	5.7	1.6	4.7	2.0	1.0	0.6	10/10
IL-10	2/10	2.0	0.8	0/10	—	—	—	—	0.5	—	1/10
IL-13	9/10	1.5	1.0	5/10	4.0	2.9	3.6	3.2	0.9	0.1	6/10
Chemokines
CTACK	9/10	40.1	15.3	7/10	220.2	73.1	158.9	76.7	64.4	50.7	9/10
Eotaxin-1	9/10	9.5	7.1	10/10	108.1	53.1	104.7	54.2	3.4	2.1	10/10
GRO-α	7/10	17.9	13.2	8/10	359.7	207.4	335.1	183.4	35.1	30.0	7/10
IL-8	9/10	2.7	2.0	3/10	77.1	60.1	6.5	18.3	31.3	44.6	10/10
IL-16	10/10	59.9	30.7	9/10	5,082.9	5,236.1	5,080.7	5,235.0	6.6	2.6	3/10
MCP-1	1/10	5.6	—	6/10	160.0	87.5	150.1	94.8	11.5	6.7	10/10
MCP-3	8/10	16.4	8.4	4/10	86.4	18.2	85.6	18.2	1.7	0.2	2/10
MIG	10/10	299.5	474.2	4/10	1,235.4	1,138.2	1,231.0	1,139.1	5.7	3.2	5/10
MIP-1α	10/10	0.5	0.3	7/10	7.8	5.6	6.1	4.3	1.6	1.8	10/10
MIP-1β	10/10	6.2	2.9	6/10	64.0	63.9	56.9	59.8	7.4	7.1	10/10
RANTES	10/10	440.4	258.8	10/10	8,121.9	9,905.4	5,952.5	8,982.4	2,170.6	1,699.9	10/10
SDF-1α	10/10	468.5	467.5	10/10	3,086.3	3,412.8	3,038.1	3,431.7	60.2	32.7	8/10