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Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 110 Francis St, Lowry Medical Office Bldg, Suite 2A, Boston, MA 02215
(Email: jfeng@caregroup.harvard.edu; fsellke@caregroup.harvard.edu).
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The use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) during cardiac surgery induces innate and adaptive pro-inflammatory responses [1, 2]. Numerous cytokines and chemokines are released and activated after CPB. Many procedures including off-pump surgery have been clinically used to suppress these pro-inflammatory consequences. Recent studies have reported that soluble heat shock protein (HSP) 70 is also significantly elevated in the blood after CPB [3, 4]. The present study of Szerafin and colleagues [5] extended these previous findings by measuring various molecular weights of soluble HSPs, such
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