Figure 1From: Impact of heparin and short term anesthesia on the quantification of cytokines in laboratory mouse plasmaCorticosterone levels. Shown are the corticosterone levels in blood samples from anesthetized (ANE, n = 7) and unanesthetized control mice (NO_ANE, n = 6). Data are presented as means ± SEM for pooled heparin-plasma, EDTA-plasma and serum samples. Corticosterone levels were significantly higher in anesthetized animals than in control animals (P < 0.001).Back to article page