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. 2019 Sep 3;8(1):108–118. doi: 10.1177/2050640619874173

Table 5.

Plasma cytokine concentrations and fold-changes (median and IQR), and responder rates for cytokines after gluten challenge in the Oslo study with SR-GS participants.

Baseline
Peak after food challengea
Cytokine assay Challenge pg/mL pg/mL Fold-change Respondersb
IL-2 V-PLEX Gluten 0.1 (0.1–0.1) 0.1 (0.1–0.2) 1.0 (1.0–1.6) 0 (0%)
Fructan 0.1 (0.1–0.1) 0.1 (0.1–0.2) 1.0 (1.0–1.3) 0 (0%)
Placebo 0.1 (0.1–0.1) 0.1 (0.1–0.2) 1.0 (1.0–1.5) 2 (4%)
IL-8 V-PLEX Gluten 4.7 (3.7–6.1) 5.2 (4.4–6.6) 1.0 (1.0–1.2) 2 (4%)
Fructan 5.0 (4.2–5.9) 5.3 (4.6–6.5) 1.0 (1.0–1.1) 1 (2%)
Placebo 5.0 (4.0–6.5) 5.5 (4.5–7.2) 1.0 (1.0–1.2) 0
IL-10 V-PLEX Gluten 0.2 (0.2–0.3) 0.2 (0.2–0.3) 1.0 (1.0–1.1) 1 (2%)
Fructan 0.2 (0.2–0.3) 0.2 (0.2–0.3) 1.0 (1.0–1.1) 0 (0%)
Placebo 0.3 (0.2–0.4) 0.3 (0.2–0.4) 1.0 (1.0–1.2) 1 (2%)
IL-2 Simoa Gluten 0.1 (0.1–0.2) 0.1 (0.1–0.2) 1.0 (1.0–1.1) 0 (0%)
a

Assessments at 2, 4 and 6 h for V-PLEX assays and at 4 h for Simoa assay.

b

Cutoffs for responder analyses were 3.6 fold-change for IL-2, 1.7 for IL-8 and 1.6 for IL-10 in V-PLEX assays, and 3.6 for IL-2 Simoa assay (mean + 3 × SD).