IFNG and arthritic joint disease: Despite the significant differences in arthritis outcome, there were no differences between the groups in the levels of any of these mRNA or proteins except IFN-γ, which was decreased in lymph node cultures from LNT-CII (mean ± SEM pg /ml; 22.1 ± 3.86) compared to LNT-Ctrl (50.08 ± 8.8, p = 0.03).