Table 4.

Baseline means of inflammatory markers.

	SS Samples				IS Samples
Cytokine	N	Mean	SD		N	Mean	SD	p Value
IL-1α	33	185.18	151.38		47	175.97	191.72	0.87
IL-1β	21	78.65	95.46		33	94.22	161.75	0.65
IL-2	12	61.96	145.07		19	43.48	89.80	0.95
IL-3	15	13991.37	53217.61		15	187.59	2109.28	0.28
IL-4	16	495.89	801.46		18	930.86	2302.60	0.53
IL-5	24	33.18	58.35		32	23.28	35.73	0.51
IL-6	29	1169.24	1482.07		44	934.57	1420.73	0.55
IL-7	20	729.69	1012.19		26	494.14	817.24	0.48
IL-8	34	16558.31	43031.87		51	12122.42	17692.20	0.50
IL-10	14	31.55	29.18		13	39.01	32.38	0.79
IL-12p40	10	366.75	269.48		15	631.29	2108.62	0.59
IL-12p70	24	69.29	212.25		34	38.83	51.59	0.41
IL-13	20	132.56	239.90		21	52.38	85.28	0.20
IL-15	26	53.64	61.05		39	34.07	9.87	0.10
GM-CSF	28	71.53	118.95		43	48.49	32.80	0.23
IFNɣ	24	116.04	233.31		35	94.92	117.62	0.66
TNFα	21	144.52	261.82		31	104.17	183.80	0.53
Eotaxin	20	14588.17	43634.48		20	5799.54	14784.55	0.45
MCP-1	36	4273.62	9140.79		52	3411.45	5689.27	0.42
RANTES	29	189.57	255.38		45	139.70	233.51	0.39
MIP-1α	23	1170.68	1277.62		34	613.74	765.54	0.05
IP-10	35	33769.88	51867.85		53	23021.31	38070.97	0.26
IL-17	10	331.30	310.02		16	579.92	482.21	0.95
MIP-1β	28	3588.90	10329.79		45	1340.06	1919.51	0.17
TNFR1	23	1098.62	1269.40		35	1322.13	1522.73	0.87
IFN-k	24	418.80	375.68		34	664.40	542.31	0.20
ENA-78 (CXCL5)	36	3701.29	5879.98		53	4913.47	7421.97	0.83
I-TAC (CXCL11)	22	894.43	988.85		36	759.04	1116.66	0.77

Only values that are within the limit of detection are reported