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Table II.

Extrahepatic and hepatic expression of APP and IL-6 ± standard error of the mean. The mean value of the 10 infected animals is shown relative to the 5 control animals as described in Materials and methods.

Gene Tissue
Liver Leukocytes Spleen Lymph Tonsil
AGP 0.46 ± 0.04** E (3/5 10/10)a E (1/5 5/10) E (2/5 2/10) Not expressed
ALB 0.16 ± 0.02*** E (5/5 9/10) E (5/5 1/10) E (1/5 1/10) 0.75 ± 0.08
APOA1 0.53 ± 0.08* 0.53 ± 0.23 0.74 ± 0.09* 2.03 ± 1.26 1.16 ± 0.46
CRP 2.10 ± 0.41* 4.88 ± 1.72** E (3/5 5/10) 3.70 ± 0.81*** E (2/5 5/10)
FIB 3.02 ± 0.21*** Not expressed 4.12 ± 1.11*** E (4/5 9/10) Not expressed
Hp 1.92 ± 0.23** 23.23 ± 5.24*** 21.55 ± 4.93*** 3.42 ± 0.81** 0.94 ± 0.41
PigMAP 7.47 ± 0.48*** E (5/5 10/10)b 4.36 ± 0.62*** 5.43 ± 1.72* 2.27 ± 0.55**
SAA2 68.19 ± 12.90*** 95.66 ± 21.30*** 24.52 ± 9.70*** 668 ± 160** 2.11 ± 0.28*
TF 0.17 ± 0.02*** 0.45 ± 0.12 0.37 ± 0.05** 1.30 ± 0.26 1.32 ± 0.27
TTR 0.04 ± 0.0*** E (1/5 1/10) 0.39 ± 0.06 0.83 ± 0.18 E (4/5 6/10)
IL-6 11.16 ± 8.30* 7.46 ± 3.31* 14.08 ± 7.49*** 167 ± 130** 4.37 ± 1.81*
a

Expressed in 3 out of 5 control animals and 10 out of 10 infected animals.

b

Due to very low expression in a few control animals we were not able to quantify PigMAP in leukocytes.

* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001 Wilcoxon rank sum test.