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Table 4 Median and 25 %/75 % quantiles of the measured biomarkers

From: The influence of a short-term gluten-free diet on the human gut microbiome

 

Habitual diet

Gluten-free diet

Wilcoxon test p value

A) Plasma

 Citrullin (mol/L)

45.60 (38.15–51.50)

48.00 (36.35–56.85)

0.9328

 IL 1 Beta (g/L)

1.60 (0.68–2.10)

1.23 (0.79–1.68)

0.8870

 IL 6 (g/L)

BDL (BDL–1.60)

BDL (BDL–0.38)

0.1240

 IL 8 (g/L)

6.04 (2.89–12.61)

5.41 (3.34–11.19)

0.9030

 IL 10 (g/L)

0.83 (0.74–1.01)

0.83 (0.74–0.97)

0.9322

 IL 12P70 (g/L)

1.53 (0.95–1.78)

1.53 (0.95–2.11)

0.2131

 TNF Alpha (g/L)

0.56 (BDL–4.33)

BDL (BDL–5.13)

0.9761

B) Feces

 Chromogranin A (nmol/g)

10.85 (7.69–23.09)

11.44 (7.37–27.18)

0.8128

 Beta Defensin 2 (ng/g)

24.90 (18.78–35.03)

26.10 (20.03–46.90)

0.5256

 Calprotectin (g/g)

21.55 (BDL–42.88)

13.05 (BDL–31.28)

0.0528

 Acetate (mol/g)

24.37 (17.35–34.34)

23.61 (18.58–35.12)

0.8651

 Propionate (mol/g)

7.55 (4.24–10.98)

6.84 (4.67–9.07)

0.6986

 Butyrate (mol/g)

6.86 (3.53–10.63)

6.48 (4.27–10.40)

0.8882

 Valerat (mol/g)

1.09 (0.74–1.76)

1.24 (0.79–1.70)

0.6824

 Caproat (mol/g)

0.28 (0.05–0.85)

0.21 (0.04–0.66)

0.2488

  1. None of the differences were statistically significant. BDL = below detection limit