Patients with Intolerance Reactions to Total Knee Replacement: Combined Assessment of Allergy Diagnostics, Periprosthetic Histology, and Peri-implant Cytokine Expression Pattern

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(a) Cytokine expression of IFNγ in the tissues of the 5 different patient groups; cytokine expression was analysed in comparison to the house-keeping gene EF-1 and to the patients control tissue by the ΔΔCt-method [22]; (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney-test done by SPSS statistical software). (b) Cytokine expression of IL-2 in the tissues of the 5 different patient groups; cytokine expression was analysed in comparison to the house-keeping gene EF-1 and to the patients control tissue by the ΔΔCt-method [22]; (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney-test done by SPSS statistical software). (c) Cytokine expression of TGFβ in the tissues of the 5 different patient groups; cytokine expression was analysed in comparison to the house-keeping gene EF-1 and to the patients control tissue by the ΔΔCt-method [22] (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney-test done by SPSS statistical software).

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