Hepatic Chemerin and Chemokine-Like Receptor 1 Expression in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C

Table 9

Serum chemerin concentration, chemerin, and CMKLR1 tissue expression and ballooning degeneration grade.

Ballooning degeneration grade	Men		Women		CHC patients
	0-1	2	0-1	2	0-1	2
Chemerin (ng/mL)	2.93 ± 0.95	2.82 ± 0.59	2.95 ± 0.68	3.91 ± 1.53	2.95 ± 0.75	3.26 ± 1.18
Chemerin tissue expression	0.50 ± 0.29	0.75 ± 0.28	0.81 ± 0.32	0.71 ± 0.27	0.73 ± 0.34	0.73 ± 0.27
CMKLR1 tissue expression	0.38 ± 0.21	0.64 ± 0.50	0.76 ± 0.48	0.74 ± 0.48	0.66 ± 0.45	0.68 ± 0.48