Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Table 1 Plasma alanine amino transferase (ALT), and lactic acid in control and CLP groups over time. Results are means ± SEM

From: Time course of liver mitochondrial function and intrinsic changes in oxidative phosphorylation in a rat model of sepsis

	6 h		24 h		36 h
	CLP	Sham	CLP	Sham	CLP	Sham
ALT U/L	88.20 ± 9.88*	42.75 ± 5.94	172.60 ± 21.70*‡	43.00 ± 1.58	129.75 ± 15.93*	39.20 ± 2.59
Lactic acid mmol/L	4.25 ± 0.60	2.21 ± 0.53	6.29 ± 1.09*	2.71 ± 0.95	4.43 ± 0.73*	1.83 ± 0.34

*p < 0.05 compared with matching sham-operated control group; &p < 0.05 compared 24 and 36H CLP; ‡p < 0.05 compared 24 and 6H CLP, from 6 animals per group determined by surgical procedure and following period (6, 24, 36 h)

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