Cytokines from oviduct tissue harvested 14 days after intravaginal infection.

Oviduct tissue homogenates were made from highly susceptible strain CBA/J (n = 5) and resistant strain A/J (n = 5) on day 14 after intravaginal inoculation for simultaneous measurement of 32 cytokines using a multiplex bead array assay. All cytokines were expressed in pg/ml as mean plus/minus standard deviation. The means from the two mouse strains were used for calculating ratio and Student t-Test. A ratio of CBA/J versus A/J above 4 is highlighted in bold face. Note that 27 of the 32 cytokines were significantly higher in oviducts of highly susceptible CBA/J than those of resistant A/J mice, 14 of which displayed more than 4 folds difference.