The serum samples were tested for IL-1β, IL-2, IL-5, IL-10, IL-13, IFN-γ, and TNF-α using Human Bio-Plex Pro Assays (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA) (Jiang et al., 2014 (link)) on a Bio-Plex 200 platform (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, United States). Bio-Plex Manager software version 6.0 was used for data analysis.
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