[Retracted] Efficacy of Oxymatrine Plus Antiviral in the Treatment of Sepsis and Its Effect on the Levels of Endotoxin and Inflammatory Factors

Table 4

Inflammatory factor levels in two groups.

Indicators	Control group (n = 45)		Study group (n = 45)
	Pretreatment	After treatment	Pretreatment	After treatment
TNF-α (ng/L)	142.14 ± 27.59	119.30 ± 24.57	142.08 ± 25.81	86.72 ± 26.09
IL-6 (ng/L)	76.21 ± 6.85	60.35 ± 7.16	75.98 ± 7.11	26.93 ± 8.06
IL-8 (ng/L)	63.39 ± 17.10	50.61 ± 12.39	63.44 ± 19.05	27.84 ± 13.52
CRP (mg/L)	77.69 ± 7.48	49.30 ± 5.62	78.02 ± 7.83	27.19 ± 3.26
PCT (μg/L)	5.95 ± 2.33	2.87 ± 1.15	5.88 ± 3.04	0.83 ± 0.32

^∗ as compared with the control group after treatment.