Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Inflammatory Mediators in Pediatric Asthma

Table 3

Comparison of the mRNA expression levels of IL-10, IL-17, TGF-β1, and MMP-9 in the TCM and SM groups before and after treatment (mean ± SD).

Variables	TCM group ()			SM group ()
	Before	After	value	Before	After	value
IL-17	5.3 ± 8.2	8.0 ± 7.6	0.39	4.2 ± 6.8	8.8 ± 11.2	0.12
TGF-β1	196.6 ± 94.9	170.2 ± 83.0	0.44	227.7 ± 130.5	120.3 ± 60.1	0.00
MMP-9	2.5 ± 3.5	2.6 ± 4.5	0.97	1.7 ± 3.6	1.8 ± 3.3	0.89
IL-10	0.5 ± 0.3	0.6 ± 0.6	0.63	0.5 ± 0.5	0.5 ± 0.7	0.63