Cytokines in Preterm Delivery: Proposal of a New Diagnostic Algorithm

Table 2

Comparison of concentration levels of the analyzed markers between preterm delivery and false preterm delivery groups.

	Preterm delivery		False preterm delivery
	Mean (pg/ml)	±SEM	Mean (pg/ml)	±SEM
BDNF	49.41	4.10	31.87	2.33	0.004
BLC	45.28	5.69	22.75	2.42	0.005
Eotaxin-1	1.68	0.16	1.03	0.08	0.001
Eotaxin-2	9.37	0.08	9.21	1.36	0.607
E-Selectin	393.43	29.80	372.55	32.41	0.953
ICAM-1	502.77	42.30	459.14	33.20	0.699
IGFBP-1	177.97	41.57	144.57	33.35	0.001
IGFBP-2	429.72	65.63	424.00	34.55	0.695
L-Selectin	2369.2	318.13	2379.9	265.01	0.888
MIP-1d	25.01	6.63	27.79	6.10	0.092
MIP-3b	31.16	5.19	24.22	4.75	0.93
PECAM-1	27.94	12.03	31.78	17.66	0.248
VCAM-1	44.87	20.44	36.09	10.46	0.158