Table 3.

Spearman rank coefficients for correlations between circulating levels of cytokines and immune cells.

Cell Type	IFN-γ	IL-1β	IL-4	IL-6	IL-10	IL-12	IL-17	MCP-1	MIP-1α	MIP-1β	TNF-α	TGF-β1
Lymphocytes	−0.05	0.02	−0.13	−0.13	−0.07	0.06	0.003	−0.06	0.03	0.07	−0.12	0.22^*
CD4+ cells	−0.06	0.01	−0.17^†	−0.18^*	−0.16	0.09	−0.02	0.01	0.04	0.06	−0.20^*	0.27^**
CD8+ cells	−0.08	−0.08	−0.16	−0.23^*	−0.15	0.02	−0.08	0.06	0.039	0.13	−0.09	0.28^**
B cells	−0.03	−0.04	0.1	−0.06	0.03	0.01	0.04	−0.06	0.19^*	−0.04	−0.02	0.11
Natural killer cells	−0.05	0.06	0.01	−0.09	0.04	0.14	0.06	0.08	0.20^*	0.05	−0.04	0.25^**