Differential expression of interleukin-1/Toll-like receptor signaling regulators in microscopic and ulcerative colitis

Table 1 Clinical characteristics of patients

	Control	Active CC	CC-HR	Active LC	LC-HR	Active UC	UC-R
Number of patients	11	9	3	7	6	6	10
Male/female	6/5	1/8	0/3	0/7	0/6	6/0	8/2
Mean age (yr) (range)	58.6 (29-88)	67.3 (54-84)	55 (50-64)	69.4 (49-86)	61 (24-80)	52 (33-70)	59 (42 -79)
Mean duration of disease (yr) (range)	NA	6.8 (0-17)	5 (1-9)	2.3 (0-7)	1.2 (0-3)	14.3 (0-53)	29 (6-43)

CC: Specimens from collagenous colitis patients; CC-HR: Specimens from clinically active CC patients in histopathological remission; LC: Specimens from lymphocytic colitis patients; LC-HR: Specimens from clinically active LC patients in histopathological remission; UC: Specimens from active ulcerative colitis patients; UC-R: Specimens from UC patients in remission.