Table 1.

Non-Pregnant and Pregnant Mice Brain nNOS, NF-kB, And IL-6 At Basal State, Following Inflammation With Or Without Progesterone Pretreatment

Brain cytokine	Group		Mean (u)	Standard deviation	p value compared to LPS	p value compared to non-pregnant
nNOS	Non-pregnant	Control	0.09	0.01	0.01 >
		LPS	0.23	0.01
		LPS + P	0.17	0.01	0.01 >
	Pregnant	Control	0.11	0.01	0.01 >	0.06
		LPS	0.24	0.01		0.38
		LPS + P	0.18	0.01	0.01 >	0.13
NF-kB	Non-pregnant	Control	0.11	0.01	0.01 >
		LPS	0.19	0.01
		LPS + P	0.16	0.01	0.01 >
	Pregnant	Control	0.12	0.01	0.01 >	0.05 >
		LPS	0.22	0.02		0.05 >
		LPS + P	0.12	0.01	0.01 >	0.01 >
IL-6	Non-pregnant	Control	0.1	0.01	0.05 >
		LPS	0.16	0.03
		LPS + P	0.14	0.01	0.56
	Pregnant	Control	0.09	0.01	0.01 >	0.1
		LPS	0.25	0.02		0.05 >
		LPS + P	0.13	0.01	0.01 >	0.23

LPS, lipopolysaccharide, P, progesterone