Figure 2

Effect of 24 h ciGEnC treatments with 5% JSLE or HC sera in pro-inflammatory gene mRNA expression. Changes in IL-6 (a), IL-8 (b), IL-10 (c), M-CSF (d), GM-CSF (e), MCP-1 (f), VCAM-1 (g), MIP-1α (h), IP-10 (i), TNF-α (j), IL-1β (k) and NF-κB (l) mRNA expression levels. Data presented as median ΔΔCt [range] are analysed with Mann-Whitney test. *P </= 0.05 vs HC N = 10–20/group.