Fig. 5

Quantitative real-time PCR analysis of mRNA expression levels, viz., TNF-α (a), IL-6 (b), NFκB (c), MCP-1 (d), IL1-β (e), SOCS-3 (f), TLR2 (g), TLR4 (h), and DBC1 (i) in PBMCs from control subjects and type 2 diabetes patients (n = 14 each). Bars represent the mean ± SEM; *p value <0.05 compared to control subjects; NS not significant