Figure 1
From: Anti-inflammatory deficiencies in neutrophilic asthma: reduced galectin-3 and IL-1RA/IL-1β
Induced sputum concentrations of inflammatory mediators in asthmatic inflammatory subtypes. Gal-3 (A) was decreased, gal-3BP (B) was increased and the gal-3 to gal-3BP ratio (C) was decreased in NA. IL-1RA (D) was not different, IL-1β (E) was increased and the IL-1RA to IL-1β ratio (F) was reduced in NA. IL-6 (G) and IL-8 (H) were both increased in NA. Group comparisons were conducted using analysis of variance with least significant difference (LSD) post hoc test after being log-transformed and adjusted by age and BMI. The horizontal bar denotes median value. NA; neutrophilic asthma, PGA; paucigranulocytic asthma, EA; eosinophilic asthma.