Fig. 4
From: In vivo pre-activation of monocytes in patients with axial spondyloarthritis
Disturbed cytokine responses are found predominately in axial spondyloarthritis patients under conventional treatment. Subanalysis of monocytic cytokine production (Fig. 3) in patients stratified according to treatment into a group of patients receiving conventional treatment spondyloarthritis (CT) (n = 20) and patients receiving biological treatment (i.e., TNF inhibitor treatment) (BT) (n = 12) compared with healthy controls (C) (n = 17). *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01 (Kruskal-Wallis test and Dunn’s post test). FSL fibroblast-stimulating lipopeptid-1, IL interleukin, LPS lipopolysaccharide, MDP muramyl dipeptide, TNFα tumour necrosis factor alpha