... sodium attenuates the increase in inflammatory cytokines and preserves organ function in endotoxemic ratsToshiaki Iba1 and Taku Miyasho21Department of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Juntendo ... many inflammatory factors, including inflammatory cytokines, through their HS chains [2-5]. Moreover, recentdata indicate that HS and syndecan protect the host from var-ious inflammatory disorders ... treating septic organ dysfunction. In addi-tion to these changes of early mediators, other inflammatory cytokines such as IL-6, GM-CSF, and INF-γ were also lower in the DA group compared with the...