Inflammatory Response in Preterm and Very Preterm Newborns with Sepsis

Figure 3

Proinflammatory cytokines. IFN-γ (a), TNF-α (b), and IL-6 (c) showed similar patterns during the sepsis process (mean ± standard deviation). During sepsis, the values for the PT infants (circle) were elevated compared with VPT (triangle) infants (, Student’s -test). Values at sepsis were higher than pre- and postsepsis in the case of IFN-γ and IL-6 for PT group (, Friedman test).

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