Secretion of TNF-α, IL-1β and IL-1ra by PMN from patients with IBD, infectious colitis or normal controls
| LPS stimulated secretion | Spontaneous secretion | ||||||||
| Median | Lower quartile | Upper quartile | Number | Median | Lower quartile | Upper quartile | Number | ||
| IL-1β (pg/ml) | |||||||||
| Normal controls | 148 | 90 | 358 | 16 | 20 | 15.8 | 24.5 | 9 | |
| Crohn’s disease | 595 | 332 | 808 | 22 | 25 | 13.9 | 32.3 | 11 | |
| Ulcerative colitis | 487 | 342 | 522 | 16 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 21.0 | 8 | |
| Infectious colitis | 445 | 317 | 531 | 9 | 11.1 | 3.0 | 19.2 | 6 | |
| TNF-α (pg/ml) | |||||||||
| Normal controls | 92 | 37 | 164 | 18 | 21 | 11.4 | 26.3 | 9 | |
| Crohn’s disease | 252 | 162 | 612 | 18 | 25 | 10.2 | 180 | 11 | |
| Ulcerative colitis | 264 | 101 | 635 | 14 | 35 | 11.2 | 57.6 | 8 | |
| Infectious colitis | 189 | 132 | 632 | 9 | 66 | 8.2 | 132 | 6 | |
| IL-1ra (pg/ml) | |||||||||
| Normal controls | 2554 | 1243 | 6132 | 15 | 1248 | 1071 | 1693 | 9 | |
| Crohn’s disease | 8193 | 5670 | 15094 | 16 | 1012 | 734 | 1455 | 11 | |
| Ulcerative colitis | 12412 | 9568 | 16311 | 13 | 1030 | 436 | 1560 | 9 | |
| Infectious colitis | 3922 | 1440 | 6726 | 8 | 960 | 632 | 1512 | 6 | |