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. 2018 Aug 9;20:173. doi: 10.1186/s13075-018-1666-0

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Differences in cytokine levels between patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and healthy subjects. The plots show the serum level (picograms/millilitre) of each of the 10 cytokines in patients with SLE and in healthy controls. The bar represents the median value. Data were compared using the Mann-Whitney test; n.s. = not significant, **p < 0.01, ****p < 0.0001. Both values remained significant after Bonferroni correction. CXCL, chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand; BLyS B, lymphocyte stimulator; IFNα, interferon alpha; PTX, pentraxin-related protein; MCP, monocyte chemotactic protein