Research Article

Influence of Vitamin D Metabolites on Plasma Cytokine Concentrations in Endurance Sport Athletes and on Multiantigen Stimulated Cytokine Production by Whole Blood and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Cultures

Table 4

Comparison of the whole blood and PBMC culture in antigen-stimulated cytokine production.

Whole bloodPBMC

IL-2 (pg/106 Ly)9.5 (4.5–16.6)0.3 (0.2–0.7)0.016
IL-4 (pg/106 Ly)1.0 (0.7–1.6)0.4 (0.3–0.4)0.025
IL-6 (pg/106 Mo)48.9 (16.5–145.3)15.4 (12.1–23.5)0.262
IL-10 (pg/mL)1.7 (1.5–1.8)2.0 (1.6–2.3)0.297
IFN- (pg/106 Ly)0.6 (0.3–0.9)0.1 (0.0–0.1)0.037
TNF- (pg/106 Mo)8.4 (3.6–11.9)7.7 (6.4–11.7)0.631
IL-1 (pg/106 Mo)6.4 (4.3–8.8)1.6 (1.3–2.6)0.037

Data are median and IQR.
Ly: lymphocytes; Mo: monocytes.
value from Mann-Whitney -test is shown in right hand column.