Furthermore, circulating values of I-FABP correlated with gastric mucosal PrCO2 and Pr-aCO2-gap measured at the same time points (correlation: 0.553 (p = 0.040) and 0.585 (p = 0.028), respectively), whereas no correlation was observed between plasma levels of I-BABP and PrCO2 or Pr-aCO2-gap.
The normal circulating values were initially set at 5 30 μg/ml [ 42], albeit subsequent investigations reported a much narrower range - 5 10 μg/ml – [ 44, 45].
We investigated the local expression of IGF-1R ligand, IGF-1, in the mammary gland as opposed to circulating values found in the serum.
In order to get a more homogenous sample in this study, the authors decided not to include women because of gender effect on serum leptin circulating values.
The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship between pretreatment circulating values of IL-6, neopterin, sIL-2R, ESR and the changes in lymphocyte number in response to IL-2 administration.
Although the antioxidant therapy was able to restore circulating values of its different components within the normal range, only the inflammatory response (estimated by the C-reactive protein level) in the trauma and in the subarachnoid haemorrhage groups was improved.
In addition, maximal reductions of the platelet serotonin and plasma serotonin circulating values contrasted with the normal rises of these parameters, always registered during the glucose load plus placebo challenge.
Of note, fetal circulating hCG is known to follow a similar pattern as maternal hCG, with circulating values approximately one third to one ninth of maternal values, fetal hCG being a more important ligand than luteinizing hormone (LH) for stimulating steroidogenesis up to 20 weeks of gestation [ 4].
Thus, the reduction of plasma serotonin plus platelet serotonin circulating values registered in the present study should be taken into account in order to understand the hypoglycemic effect triggered by amantadine, when this drug was added to an oral glucose load.
In addition, we sought to compare urine cortisol values to circulating plasma values in early pregnancy, and to investigate the relationship of maternal urine and plasma cortisol values to depression and adiposity among a cohort of black women recruited in early pregnancy.
