Fig. 1From: Nerve growth factor is closely related to glucose metabolism, insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion in the second trimester: a case–control study in ChineseSerum levels of selected inflammatory cytokines in the second and third trimesters. The horizontal lines represent the medians, the tops and bottoms of the boxes represent quartiles, and the t-bars denote the 25th and 75th percentiles plus and minus the 1.5 interquartile distances. The solid circles represent outliers. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.001. NGF nerve growth factor, IL-8 Interleukin-8, IL-6 Interleukin-6, MCP-1 monocyte chemoattractant protein 1, TNF-α tumor necrosis factor-alpha, IL-β Interleukin-1 betaBack to article page