The Importance of Fever as a Predictive Symptom for the Potency of Host's Monocytes to Release Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Mediators
Figure 1
Ex vivo release of tumour necrosis
factor-alpha (TNF), IL-6, IL-10, and malondialdehyde (MDA) by monocytes
of 51 patients with septic syndrome and nine healthy donors. Patients were
divided into three groups depending on the time lapsing between blood sampling and advent of fever: group
A: <12 hours group B: 12–24 hours, and group C: >24 hours. Asterisks
denote outliers and circles denote extremes. P values refer to
comparisons with controls.
