Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics

Table 3 Level of inflammatory mediators in acute and chronic group

From: Differences in levels of inflammatory mediators in meniscal and synovial tissue of patients with meniscal lesions

		Meniscus (pg/mg)			Synovium (pg/mg)
		IM	NIM	p - value	NS	FS	p - value
		Mean	Mean	p - value	NS	FS	p - value
TNF-α	Acute	0.44 ± .14	0.044 ± .007	.043	0.055 ± .004	0.053 ± 0.053	n.s.
TNF-α	Chronic	0.059 ± .042	0.049 ± .022	.03	0.055 ± .006	0.055 ± .006	n.s.
IL-6	Acute	0.12 ± .03	0.055 ± .014	.043	0.087 ± .02	0.051 ± .14	.043
IL-6	Chronic	0.096 ± .017	0.071 ± .012	.03	0.088 ± .007	0.082 ± .014	.015
NGF	Acute	0.049 ± .082	0.042 ± .084	n.s.	0.053 ± .01	0.061 ± .017	n.s.
NGF	Chronic	0.042 ± .004	0.042 ± .005	n.s.	0.057 ± .02	0.061 ± .03	n.s.

TNF-α tumor necrosis factor-alpha, IL-6 interleukin-6, NGF nerve growth factor, IM injured meniscal site, NIM non-injured meniscal site, NS synovium ‘nearest’ the lesion, FS ‘farthest’ synovium, n.s. not significantly different, SD standard deviation

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