The Effect of Open Lung Ventilation on Respiratory Mechanics, Postoperative Organ Function, and Inflammatory Mediators in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

OBJECTIVE Recent advances support the current view of atherosclerosis as an inflammatory process that initiates and promotes lesion development to the point of acute thrombotic complications and clinical events. ApoE-deficient mice are a valuable model for studying the involvement of inflammatory mediators during atherogenesis. In this study, we investigated the correlation between atherosclero...

Low-grade inflammation and a diet high in salt are both established risk factors for cardiovascular disease. High potassium (K+) intake was found to counter increase blood pressure due may potentially also have protective anti-inflammatory effects. To better understand these interactions under normal physiological conditions, we investigated the relationships between 22 inflammatory mediators w...

inflammatory condition is the consequence of defensive mechanism of immune system against viral and bacterial infection, tissue injury, uv radiation, stress and etc. persistently acute inflammation leads to chronic phase which is characterized by production of pro-inflammatory mediators from t cells. these molecules (e.g. il-6, tnf-α, il-1β and il-17) are mostly pleiotropic cytokines involved i...

introduction: astrocytes are the most abundant glial cell type. in addition to their neurological roles, astrocytes also have immune functions. they have been involved in antigen presentation in the central nervous system (cns). activated astrocytes express adhesion molecules, chemokines and release several inflammatory mediators, pro-inflammatory cytokines, neurotrophic and neuroprotective fac...