Table 3 of Urbančič, Mol Vis 2020; 26:472-482.


Table 3. Comparison of samples from patients with PDR and patients with MH – median (minimum-maximum); Mann–Whitney test.

Cytokine vitreous serum
PDR (n=33) MH (n=20) P value PDR (n=33) MH (n=20) P value
MCP-1 (pg/ml) 1614.98 (403.05–3990.74) 374.17 (295.01–881.87) 0.0001 72.6 (25.06–169.65) 43.4 (30.24–76.64) 0.02
IL-8 (pg/ml) 93.29 (20.04–295.71) 14.49 (13.12–16.64) 0.0001 11.99 (10.12–31.69) 12.71 (11.21–13.33) 0.84
IL-6 (pg/ml) 60.82 (13.64–798.23) 6 (5.28–8.1) 0.0001 5.46 (2.41–24.76) 9.14 (5.81–298.4) 0.02
VEGF (pg/ml) 304.64 (26.41–1439.3) 4.58 (3.5–31.79) 0.0001 38.66 (6.17–105.56) 25.73 (17.62–63.61) 0.55
IL-1β (pg/ml) 9.15 (7.51–67.36) 10.5 (7.7–35.99) 0.51 7.6 (6.91–15.16) 7.7 (7.11–95.55) 0.55
TNF-α (pg/ml) 13.41 (3.26–69.09) 21.5 (5.16–38.4) 0.25 5.7 (2.9–23.35) 4.79 (4,0–98.76) 0.82
MIP-1α (pg/ml) 9.55 (6.9–68.26) 14.25 (9.76–47.34) 0.004 15.07 (7.78–91.74) 20.38 (11.83–91.07) 0.27
MIP-1β (pg/ml) 12.09 (2.9–38.02) 13.44 (0.9–14.4) 0.31 18.76 (6.89–48.83) 17.72 (15.51–60.5) 0.80
IL-10 (pg/ml) 5.67 (4.9–8.12) 6.05 (5.84–6.08) 0.02 7.4 (5.3–15.28) 6.63 (5.7–58.43) 0.67
IL-12 (pg/ml) 3.17 (0.68–22.26) 3.99 (2.56–11.18) 0.04 17.7 (2.49–42.91) 18.84 (7.09–71.71) 0.25