Characterization of Adsorbents for Cytokine Removal from Blood in an In Vitro Model

Figure 5

IL-6 and IL-8 secretion by HUVEC. The effect of cytokine removal on endothelial cell activation regarding IL-8 and IL-6 secretion after 16 h incubation of HUVEC with 10% of sample plasma from the adsorption experiments. Untreated plasma (empty cartridge without adsorbent) acts as positive control. The results are shown in mean ± SD.