Research Article

Immunohistochemical Findings in Idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Nine Cats

Table 2

Duodenal immunohistochemistry—controls vs. diseased cats: distribution of each marker investigated in the duodenum of both healthy () and cats suffering from IBD (). Results are expressed in median and range of cells positive to each IHC marker every 62,500 μm2, considering 5 evaluation for each cat. Mann-Whitney test was then performed for statistical analysis.

IHCControls ()Diseased cats ()

TGF-β6 (2-24)5 (0-32)
TNF-α0 (0-5)12 (0-321)
IL-1β0 (0-5)11 (0-215)
IL-120 (0-2)19 (1-241)
IL-103 (0-11)3 (0-51)
Th-17+0 (0-0)8 (1-121)N/C
CD3+5 (0-11)124.5 (26-507)
FOXP3+1 (0-4)2 (0-9)

; N/Cnot comparable.