IL6 and bacterial infectious disease with sepsis: In contrast, there was a further, transient elevation in plasma IL-6 levels following bilateral splanchnic denervation at 25-h of bacteremia (to 9.23 ± 2.54 ng/mL, PGroup = 0.031), before declining to levels that were similar to those in the sham treatment group by 30-h of bacteremia (to 6.26 ± 1.55 ng/mL) (Fig. 3A).