Figure 5
Cytokines. Box-and-whisker plots showing cytokine levels of the serum 24 h after CLP. HES animals showed increased levels of cytokines when compared with other septic animals. The boxes represent the 25th to 75th percentiles, and horizontal lines within the box represent median values. The whiskers represent the lowest and highest value in the 25th percentile minus 1.5IQR and 75th percentile plus 1.5IQR regions; n = 10-12 per group; p < 0.05; * vs. sham, & vs. Gel, RA and NaCl, # vs. RA and NaCl.