Table 3

Expression of chemokine mRNA and H pylori infection

		C-X-C chemokine (%)			C-C chemokine (%)
	No studied	IL-8	GROα		RANTES	MIP-1α	MIP-1β	MCAF
Antrum
H pyloripositive	131	79.4^‡	77.1^‡		57.3^†	71.8^‡	84.0	95.4
H pylorinegative	40	2.5	0		25.0	12.5	82.5	87.5
Corpus
H pyloripositive	131	71.8^‡	76.3^‡		54.2^5-150	67.2^‡	81.7	96.2
H pylorinegative	40	0	0		30.0	10.0	80.0	85.0

Chemokine expression in H pylori positive specimens was compared with that in H pylori negative specimens with normal histology.
↵5-150 p<0.01, ^†p<0.0005, ^‡p<0.00001, two tailed Fisher’s exact probability test.