Are serum S100beta proteins and neuron-specific enolase predictors of cerebral damage in cardiovascular surgery?
A large part of the increases in S100beta protein and NSE during CPB and SCP is not attributed to neuronal damage, but to contamination with the blood from the surgical field. To determine whether these markers are useful to predict neurologic complications, it will be necessary to exclude contamination from the surgical field as observed in the present study.
IL-2 significantly ameliorated the endothelial dysfunction induced by hyperglycemia, in which the activation of the NO pathway and SOD may be involved.