Procalcitonin Impairs Liver Cell Viability and Function In Vitro: A Potential New Mechanism of Liver Dysfunction and Failure during Sepsis?

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(a) Cell counts (), (b) number of trypan blue-negative cells (), and (c) XTT metabolization ( biological replicates) of L929 fibroblasts following exposure to procalcitonin for  h in concentrations as indicated. EtOH ethanol 20%. biological replicates; , , and versus ctrl; versus as indicated. Significance between concentrations is only indicated if differences between consecutive concentrations employed reach statistical significance.

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