Sex differences in stress and immune responses during confinement in Antarctica

Table 4 Basal cytokine release for male and female participants

	IFN-γ [pg/ml]		IL-10 [pg/ml]		IL-2 [pg/ml]		TNF [pg/ml]
	female	male	female	male	female	male	female	male
BDC	0.13 ± 0.10	4.41 ± 10.50	1.14 ± 1.57	7.71 ± 13.63	0.25 ± 0.50	0.15 ± 0.19	0.42 ± 0.48	1.07 ± 1.43
February	0.66 ± 1.78	6.09 ± 17.16	0.88 ± 1.46	11.31 ± 22.80	0.48 ± 1.09	2.87 ± 5.79	0.48 ± 1.23	2.29 ± 6.52
April	0.21 ± 0.35	6.40 ± 15.56	1.97 ± 0.91	#7.89 ± 9.24	*2.76 ± 4.21	3.01 ± 7.33	1.36 ± 1.36	1.84 ± 3.78
June	3.54 ± 7.09	9.80 ± 32.27	6.34 ± 9.57	15.73 ± 26.45	1.21 ± 2.16	2.46 ± 6.37	1.87 ± 3.32	13.20 ± 35.62
August	3.65 ± 7.19	7.54 ± 22.55	2.45 ± 1.34	16.81 ± 28.51	0.76 ± 0.99	2.60 ± 5.65	1.25 ± 1.0	3.73 ± 10.78
October	5.15 ± 8.20	5.68 ± 13.51	2.56 ± 1.55	10.91 ± 18.62	0.98 ± 1.90	3.07 ± 6.28	1.08 ± 0.88	2.30 ± 5.56
PDC	0.10 ± 0	12.73 ± 49.98	2.77 ± 1.34	18.94 ± 34.38	0.33 ± 0.72	1.76 ± 5.19	1.24 ± 0.91	8.80 ± 30.89

Data are mean ± SD; units are pg/ml; IL-2: female n = 9-10; male n = 15-16; IL-10: female n = 5-6; male n = 10-11 ;TNF: female n = 9-10; male n = 15-16; IFN-γ: female n = 9-10; male n = 14-16; BDC = Baseline Data Collection; PDC = Post Data Collection; IL = interleukin; TNF = tumor necrosis factor; IFN-γ = interferon γ; # significant difference between male and female (p = 0.037); * significant difference to BDC in females (p = 0.017)

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