Evaluation of inflammatory cytokines
tumor necrosis
TUMOR NECROSIS
The patient’s blood samples were collected at the beginning and end of the intervention after 12-h daytime fasting. Afterward, the serums were allocated and stored at − 80 °C until the day of analysis. Serum cytokine levels including interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β) (pg/ml), interleukin-6 (IL-6) (pg/ml), interleukin-17 (IL-17) (pg/ml), interleukin-10 (IL-10) (pg/ml), quantitative C-reactive-protein (CRP-q) (mg/l), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-a) (pg/ml), and interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) (pg/ml) were measured using an Abcam ELISA kits according to the manufacturer’s instructions, and the values were reported as pg/ml for each cytokine.