Prolonged mechanical ventilation worsens sepsis-induced diaphragmatic dysfunction in the rat - Fig 1

<p><b>Maximal tetanic force (Panel A), maximal twitch force (Panel B) and force-frequency relationship (Panel C) of the diaphragm in the four experimental groups.</b> Control = spontaneous ventilation without endotoxemia; MV = mechanical ventilation without sepsis; SV-LPS = endotoxemia with spontaneous ventilation; MV-LPS = endotoxemia with mechanical ventilation. Results are presented in the form of box plots. Boxes are drawn between the first and third quartiles of the distribution, black bars indicate the median, and whiskers indicate the minimum and maximum values, n = 8 per group. *: P<0.05 versus Control; †: P<0.05 versus MV; $: P< 0.05 versus SV-LPS.