Table 2 Blood cytokines in RA patients allergic and not allergic to gold: mean baseline values and mean percentual change after GSTM injection.
From: Rheumatoid arthritis, gold therapy, contact allergy and blood cytokines
TNF-alpha | sTNF-R1 | IL-1 ra | NGAL | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Base | Increase | Base | Increase | Base | Increase | Base | Increase | |
Gold neg(n = 15) | 6.3 | 5 | 4.8 | -6 | 625 | 0.3 | 200 | 12 |
Gold pos (n = 4) | 3.5 | 60* | 1.6 | 8 | 326 | 82* | 185 | 10 |