Table 5.
Baseline |
Peak after food challengea |
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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%) |
Assessments at 2, 4 and 6 h for V-PLEX assays and at 4 h for Simoa assay.
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).