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Table 5 Correlation of brain TUNEL positive cells with serum and CSF cytokine measurements

From: Systemic pro-inflammatory cytokine status following therapeutic hypothermia in a piglet hypoxia-ischemia model

Measurements

Basal Ganglia

White matter

Coef

p Value

Coef

p Value

Serum cytokines

 IL-1β

0.92

0.004

0.56

0.19

 IL-4

0.04

0.94

0.12

0.80

 IL-6

0.00

1.00

0.05

0.91

 IL-8

0.91

0.005

0.31

0.50

 IL-10

0.44

0.33

−0.36

0.43

 TNF-α

0.69

0.08

−0.12

0.79

CSF cytokines

 IL-1β

0.55

0.26

0.81

0.05

 IL-4

0.34

0.51

−0.26

0.62

 IL-6

−0.32

0.54

0.00

1.00

 IL-8

−0.76

0.08

−0.83

0.04

 IL-10

0.70

0.12

0.09

0.86

 TNF-α

0.67

0.15

0.67

0.15

  1. Bold p values indicate significance at p < 0.05
  2. Association between the different variables was assessed based on Spearman’s rank correlation