Clinical Study

In Situ Expression of Regulatory Cytokines by Heart Inflammatory Cells in Chagas' Disease Patients with Heart Failure

Figure 2

Number of inflammatory cells expressing cytokines and NOS2 in heart tissue from patients in the chronic phase of Chagas’ disease. (a) Subjects were divided according to the presence (gray bar) or absence of heart failure (open bar). (b) Subjects were divided according to the presence of a high degree (hatched bar) or low degree of fibrosis (open bar). Horizontal lines represent the median, boxes represent the 25th to 75th percentiles, and vertical lines indicate the 10th to 90th percentiles. * (Mann-Whitney test).
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