The Role of Oxidative Stress, Selected Metals, and Parameters of the Immune System in Male Fertility

Table 4

The levels of interleukin 1β (IL-1β), interleukin 2 (IL-2), interleukin 4 (IL-4), interleukin 5 (IL-5), interleukin 6 (IL-6), interleukin 7 (IL-7), interleukin 8 (IL-8), interleukin 10 (IL-10), interleukin 12 (p70), interleukin 13 (IL-13), interleukin 17 (IL-17), granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), interferon gamma (IFN-γ), monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), macrophage inflammatory protein 1-α (MIP-1α), and tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) in seminal plasma of the examined population. value comparison between values obtained in the ME group: mediocre semen morphology and EX group: excellent semen morphology using Mann-Whitney U test.

	ME group		EX group		value
	Median	IQR	Median	IQR
IL-1β (pg/ml)	1.29	2.60	1.07	2.61	0.450
IL-2 (pg/ml)	0.00	1.01	0.02	3.62	0.284
IL-4 (pg/ml)	0.09	0.02	0.11	0.17	0.494
IL-5 (pg/ml)	22.3	56.6	49.8	118	0.604
IL-6 (pg/ml)	12.0	17.8	7.13	11.6	0.238
IL-7 (pg/ml)	508	444	606	409	0.116
IL-8 (pg/ml)	179	190	146	156	0.752
IL-10 (pg/ml)	1.37	1.12	1.39	2.27	0.770
IL-12 (p70) (pg/ml)	2.32	3.93	2.80	3.53	0.913
IL-13 (pg/ml)	0.35	1.01	0.42	0.46	0.688
IL-17 (pg/ml)	6.50	8.80	8.07	8.79	0.971
G-CSF (pg/ml)	17.9	29.8	16.1	27.4	0.971
GM-CSF (pg/ml)	188	65.88	196	53.2	0.618
IFN-γ (pg/ml)	57.1	71.3	40.8	93.0	0.643
MCP-1 (MCAF) (pg/ml)	1139	1880	903	1038	0.415
MIP-1b (pg/ml)	46.8	34.9	57.6	35.0	0.458
TNF-α (pg/ml)	3.52	2.82	4.76	4.03	0.569

IQR: interquartile range; .