You Are an Immunologist Studying Cytokine Levels in the Gut

question 6

Essay

You are an immunologist studying cytokine levels in the gut.Compared to a healthy control, the patient you are studying has the changes listed in the following table.Describe the clinical symptoms that could have contributed to this profile.
$\begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|}\hline \text { TGF- } \beta & \text { IL- } 10 & \text { IgA } & \text { IgE } \\\hline 10 \% \text { of control } & 15 \% \text { of control } & 10 \% \text { of control } & 200 \% \text { of control } \\\hline\end{array}$

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