Table 6.

Semi-quantitative image analysis of RT-PCR products: median, I and III quartiles, and 95° percentile ranges (between parentheses) recorded in the five samplings of FCoV infected cats, in FIP cats and in SPF cats

Cytokine	Sampling 1	Sampling 2	Sampling 3	Sampling 4	Sampling 5	Group 2 (FIP)	Group 3 (SPF)
IL-1β	48.2	59.3	76.1	71.6	92.5*§	34.0	53.4
		38.0–58.0	54.0–68.2	76.1–81.8	59.6–80.8	88.1–93.2	27.4–60.6	48.8–54.7
	(32.3–62.6)	(53.3–78.8)	(76.0–86.9)	(48.7–89.0)	(77.7–93.7)	(21.5–84.4)	(44.7–55.8)
IL-4	20.7	18.0	51.9	32.0	41.0	0.0	0.0
		0.0–43.1	0.0–36.6	37.6–65.9	16.0–36.4	29.8–44.3	0.0–10.2	0.0–0.0
	(0.0–47.9)	(0.0–38.0)	(51.1–79.1)	(1.6–40.4)	(3.0–49.8)	(0.0–19.4)	(0.0–0.0)
IL-6	0.0	0.0	16.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
		0.0–0.0	0.0–0.0	0.0–25.1	0.0–0.0	0.0–10.4	0.0–13.6	0.0–0.0
	(0.0–0.0)	(0.0–0.0)	(0.0–47.6)	(0.0–0.0)	(0.0–38.6)	(0.0–25.8)	(0.0–0.0)
IL-10	0.0	26.6	6.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
		0.0–0.0	0.0–54.5	0.0–9.9	0.0–0.0	0.0–0.0	0.0–0.0	0.0–0.0
	(0.0–0.0)	(0.0–57.8)	(0.0–18.7)	(0.0–0.0)	(0.0–0.0)	(0.0–0.0)	(0.0–0.0)
IL-12p40	27.7	0.0	54.4	52.4	77.3	0.0	0.0
		0.0–56.9	0.0–0.0	45.5–60.3	51.0–52.6	54.4–84.0	0.0–39.4	0.0–0.0
	(0.0–61.0)	(0.0–0.0)	(48.2–71.2)	(49.7–52.8)	(5.4–89.4)	(0.0–74.8)	(0.0–0.0)
IFN-γ	0.0	0.0	2.8	0.0	26.9*§	0.0	0.0
		0.0–0.0	0.0–7.9	0.0–4.2	0.0–10.7	25.6–27.8	0.0–3.7	0.0–0.0
(0.0–0.0)	(0.0–29.2)	(0.0–7.9)	(0.0–20.3)	(23.4–29.0)	(0.0–7.0)	(0.0–0.0)
TNF-α	0.0	0.0	20.4	0.0	30.8	0.0	0.0
		0.0–0.0	0.0–0.0	0.0–30.6	0.0–0.0	0.0–61.8	0.0–32.9	0.0–25.7
	(0.0–0.0)	(0.0–0.0)	(0.0–58.0)	(0.0–0.0)	(0.0–62.2)	(0.0–62.4)	(0.0–48.8)

^*P<0.05 vs sampling 1.

^§P<0.01 vs FIP, SPF.