Year Authors Animal Model Disease Inflammatory Findings
2003 Nakae, et al. Mouse Arthritis IL-17 deficient mice did not develop arthritis
2007 Maccoux, et al. Dog Osteoarthritis Increased IL-1β, IL-6, IL-10 in synovial fluid
2007 Ley, et al. Horse Osteoarthritis Increased IL-6 in synovial fluid
2007 Huebner, et al. Guinea Pig Osteoarthritis Increased IL-6 in serum
2009 Kato, et al. Rat Neuropathic Pain Decreased TNF-α expression correlated with less pain
2009 Sekiguchi, et al. Rat Neuropathic Pain Increased TNF-α in L5 nerve root injury
2011 Liao, et al. Mouse Neuropathic Pain Increased IL-1β expression in spinal cord
2011 Kim, et al. Mouse Neuropathic Pain Lack of IL-17 resulted in decreased pain
2011 Yuan, et al. Mouse Arthritis IL-21 deficient mice did not develop arthritis
IL=interleukin, TNF=tumor necrosis factor
Table 1: Animal studies and inflammation.