Constant serum levels of secreted asialoglycoprotein receptor sH2a and decrease with cirrhosis

Figure 4 Levels of sH2a in healthy individuals and in hepatitis C virus patients with cirrhosis. A: The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) described in Figure 3 was used to measure the concentration of sH2a in 62 healthy individuals, male and female, with a wide range of ages. The box height indicates the interquartile range (IQR). The thick horizontal bar is the median. The whiskers extend to the farthest non-outlier value smaller than 1.5 x IQR. Empty circles indicate “mild" outliers (< 3 x IQR); B: The concentration of sH2a in sera was measured blindly by ELISA, from 5 hepatitis C virus patients with cirrhosis compared to 3 healthy individuals.