Research Article
Differentiating Branch Duct and Mixed IPMN in Endoscopically Collected Pancreatic Cyst Fluid via Cytokine Analysis
Table 2
Inflammatory mediator proteins (
) detected only in mixed IPMN.
| Cytokine | Mixed IPMN | Concentration, pg/mL | Samples |
Median |
IQR | M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 | M5 |
| Eotaxin-3 | N.D. | 91.2 | 11.8 | N.D. | N.D. | 51.5 | 39.7 | GM-CSF | N.D. | 127.5 | 9.3 | N.D. | N.D. | 68.4 | 59.1 | I-309 | N.D. | 2.4 | 2.0 | N.D. | N.D. | 2.2 | 0.2 | IL-5 | N.D. | 11.7 | 0.5 | N.D. | N.D. | 6.1 | 5.6 | IL-9 | N.D. | 14.2 | N.D. | N.D. | N.D. | 14.2 | 0.0 | IL-17 | N.D. | 15.7 | 6.7 | N.D. | N.D. | 11.2 | 4.5 | Lymphotactin | N.D. | N.D. | N.D. | N.D. | 37.2 | 37.2 | 0.0 | SCF | N.D. | 6.4 | 2.3 | N.D. | N.D. | 4.3 | 2.1 | TGF-β1 | N.D. | 104.3 | 94.5 | N.D. | 81.2 | 94.5 | 11.5 | TGF-β2 | N.D. | 170.7 | 41.4 | N.D. | N.D. | 106.0 | 64.7 | TGF-β3 | N.D. | 14.7 | N.D. | N.D. | N.D. | 14.7 | 0.0 | TNF-β | N.D. | 3.8 | 8.6 | N.D. | N.D. | 6.2 | 2.4 | TPO | N.D. | 76.7 | 26.7 | N.D. | N.D. | 51.7 | 25.0 | TSLP | N.D. | 6.3 | N.D. | N.D. | N.D. | 6.3 | 0.0 |
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IQR: interquartile range; N.D.: not detected.
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