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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 25.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2010 Feb;38(2):553–561. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181cb0a25

Figure 2.

Figure 2

For dexamethasone-treated animals (closed boxes connected by a solid line) and controls (open squares connected by a dashed line), the mean concentrations (nmol/L) ± SEM pre- and post-ACTH stimulation (results of low and high dose ACTH challenge combined) at serial time points are shown for total cortisol (panel A), free cortisol (panel C) and protein-bound cortisol (panel E). For dexamethasone-treated animals (closed bars) and controls (open bars), the mean ± SEM change from pre- to post-ACTH stimulation (i.e., delta cortisol; results of low and high dose cosyntropin challenge combined) is shown for total cortisol (panel B), free cortisol (panel D) and protein bound cortisol (panel F).