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Table 1 Number of cats producing detectable concentrations of cytokines in ex-vivo whole blood stimulation assays

From: A descriptive pilot study of cytokine production following stimulation of ex-vivo whole blood with commercial therapeutic feline hydrolyzed diets in individual healthy immunotolerant cats

Cytokine

Timepoint

Basal diet

Respective hydrolyzed diet

50 μg/mL

500 μg/mL

50 μg/mL

500 μg/mL

IL-10

Day 0

0/9

5/9

0/9

2/9

Day 43

0/9

7/9

0/9

3/9

IL-4

Day 0

0/9

0/9

0/9

0/9

Day 43

0/9

0/9

0/9

0/9

TNF-alpha

Day 0

0/9

0/9

0/9

0/9

Day 43

2/9

0/9

0/9

0/9

  1. Number of cat blood samples producing detectable concentrations of interleukin-10 (IL-10), interleukin-4 (IL-4), and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) following ex-vivo whole blood stimulation assay with 50 μg/mL or 500 μg/mL of pre-study basal diet and the respective hydrolyzed diet, before and after a 6-week feeding trial of one of 3 hydrolyzed diets (n = 3 cats per group). No samples produced detectable cytokines following stimulation with the negative saline control