Cytokine profiles in nasal fluid of patients with seasonal or persistent allergic rhinitis

Table 3 Cytokine levels in nasal fluid in healthy controls, SAR and PAR patients

	IL-1β	IL-5	IL-6	G-CSF	GM-CSF	Eotaxin	RANTES	MCP-1	MIP-1α
Controls	20	5	25	90	32	45	9	66	0
Controls	4–1000	1–238	0–3036	9–7962	0–137	0–154	0–259	17–401	0–113
SAR	33	13	39	165	28	67	16	94	8
SAR	2–1677	0–829	5–443	10–10,681	0–115	0–503	0–766	30–600	0–66
PAR	31	6	32	146	27	30	0	93	0
PAR	5–7894	1–761	0–397	0–17,211	0–149	0–220	0–509	0–866	0–119
p values
SAR-Con	n.s.	<0.05	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	<0.01	<0.001
PAR-Con	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	<0.05	n.s.
SAR-PAR	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	<0.001	<0.01	n.s.	<0.001

Concentrations are given in pg/ml. Data are presented as median (upper line) and range (lower line)
n.s. not significant

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