Relationships between mucinous gastric carcinoma, MUC2 expression and survival

Table 3 Cytokine expression in ulcerative colitis or FAP pouches

Cytokine	Controls			Pouches
	Ileum control	Ileum in UC	UC ileostoma	UC without pouchitis	UC pouchitis	FAP ileostoma	FAP without pouchitis	FAP pouchitis
TNFα	+	(+)	+++	++	++	+	+	+
IL-1β	-	++	+++	+++	+++	+++	++	+
IL-4	-	-	(+)	(+)	(+)	+	(+)	(+)
Il-6	-	-	+	+	(+)	(+)	(+)	(+)
IL-8	(+)	++	++	++	++	++	+	(+)

UC: ulcerative colitis; FAP familial adenomatous polyposis cancer syndom. Samples were analysed by rt-PCR. +++: strong expression in all samples ++: medium expression in all samples +: weak expression in most samples (+): weak expression in some samples