IL6 and Sepsis: Blood analyses after 24 h revealed signs of sepsis in sCASP-treated animals with increased lactate (3.0 ± 1.5 [mg/dl]; Table 2), increased IL-6 (251.4 ± 238 [pg/ml]; Figure 3) and a typical leucopenia for these animals (1.35 ± 0.59 [103/μl]; Table 3) compared to control (1.7 ± 0.2; 41 ± 20; 3.00 ± 1.06) and sham (1.5 ± 0.3; 39 ± 23; 2.17 ± 1.34) (See Table 4).