Relationship between susceptibility of Blackface sheep to Teladorsagia circumcincta infection and an inflammatory mucosal T cell response

Table 3 Correlation analysis of phenotypic parameters with cytokine transcript copy number in ALN and abomasal mucosa

	adult worm count		FEC		IgA		body weight
	ρ^a	P value	ρ	P value	ρ	P value	ρ	P value
Abomasal lymph node
IL6	0.348	0.019	0.408	0.0054	−0.21	0.167	0.0665	0.664
IL21	0.537	0.0001	0.651	<0.0001	−0.135	0.377	0.031	0.838
IL23A	0.378	0.0104	0.306	0.041	−0.308	0.0396	−0.054	0.05
EBI3	0.003	0.982	−0.179	0.239	−0.164	0.283	−0.025	0.870
TGFB1	−0.128	0.402	−0.020	0.895	−0.125	0.414	0.138	0.365
Abomasal mucosa
IL6	0.1417	0.3526	0.1563	0.3053	−0.2737	0.0688	−0.1979	0.1926
TGFB1	0.4255	0.0036	0.317	0.034	−0.2558	0.0899	0.0066	0.9657

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