Figure 3
From: Does cardiac surgery in newborn infants compromise blood cell reactivity to endotoxin?
Ex vivo production of interleukin-10. Preoperative and postoperative (po) IL-10 levels in whole blood culture supernatant. Values are expressed as means and SEM (error bars). IL-10 production was significantly increased after stimulation with lipopolysaccharide (LPS; white), in comparison with the control (C; black) at all time points. In comparison with preoperative levels, IL-10 production after stimulation with LPS tended to decrease 5 days after operation but again reached preoperative levels 10 days after operation.