. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jul 4.

Published in final edited form as: Life Sci. 2007 Jun 13;81(4):306–316. doi: 10.1016/j.lfs.2007.05.021

Table 1.

The effect of sepsis on hemodynamics and the concentration of various clinical and experimental biomarkers in sham, 1-day, 3-days and 7-days post-sepsis groups. Heart rate, HR; Mean arterial pressure, MAP; rat cardiac troponin I, cTnI; C-reactive protein, CRP; endothelin-1, ET-1.

Hemodynamic charactristics and clinical parameters
Parameters	Non-septic	Sepsis
Parameters	Sham	1-day	3-days	7-days
HR (beats/min)	355±13	457±21^*	409±13^*	449±7^*
MAP (mmHg)	116±5	104±6	101±4	91±3^*
Clinical and experimental biomarkers
cTnI (ng/ml)	2.50±0.30	5.95±1.76^*	4.51±1.67^*	8.34±4.39^*
CRP(ng/ml)	0.15±0.04	0.61±0.06^*	0.37±0.05^*	0.47±0.15^*
Plasma ET-1 (pg/ml)	0.84±0.05	0.79±0.08	5.67±2.07^*	12.8±6.99^*
Heart tissue ET-1 (pg/g)	208±20	320±45	1037±331^*^#	1251±84^*^#

p<0.05 Vs. Sham

p<0.05 Vs. 1-day sepsis group, N=6 in each group.