Table 2.

The effect of HBOT on inflammation markers.

Main Aspect	Associated Markers	Stimulating Effect	No Effect	Inhibiting Effect
Acute-phase proteins	(high-sensitivity) C-reactive protein		[88,101,104,105]	[45,53,58,59,60,84,101,103,106,107,108,109]
	Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor	[110]	[110,111,112]
	Ferritin		[96]
	Insulin-like growth factor-1	[113]	[67,114,115]	[114,115]
	Albumin	[116]	[102,117]
Interleukins (IL)	IL-1α	[45]	[111,112]
	IL-1β		[35,87,111,112,118,119]	[71,72,73,120,121,122]
	IL-1Ra	[111]	[123]
	IL-1		[4]	[124]
	IL-4		[111,112,118,125,126]
	IL-6	[62,123,125]	[87,104,105,111,112,118,123,127,128]	[4,35,122,124,129,130,131,132]
	IL-8	[45]	[4,67,105,110,111,112,128]	[46,105,127]
	IL-10	[45]	[106,107,113,114,120,127,128]	[4,105]
Interferons (IFN)	IFN-α		[111,112]
	IFN-γ	[118]	[111,112,125,126]	[45,133]
Cytokines	Tumor necrosis factor-α	[87,127,134]	[4,45,111,112,128,135,136]	[35,84,105,119,120,121,123,124,129,131,132,133,137,138]
	Nuclear factor kappa B	[139]	[125]	[52,53,125,132,137,140]
Others	Erythrocyte sedimentation rate	[107]		[106,108]