“…In fact, the effect of infection on ischemic damage may largely depend on the regulation of reactive oxygen species by pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines as well as by the main antioxidant state regulators, namely superoxide dismutase (SOD) (Guegan et al, 1998;Murakami et al, 1998), glutathione (GSH) (Nicholls and Budd, 2000;Schulz et al, 2000;Droge, 2002), uncoupling protein-2 (UCP2) (Arsenijevic et al, 2000b;Mattiasson et al, 2003) and nerve growth factor (NGF) (Brodie, 1996;Guegan et al, 1999;Villoslada et al, 2000). In addition, the newly described suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS) proteins are induced in peripheral and central models of inflammation (Lebel et al, 2000;Bates et al, 2001;Larsen and Ropke, 2002;Wang and Campbell, 2002;Huang et al, 2003;Park et al, 2003;Jo et al, 2005). SOCS possibly interact with cellular redox determinants (Park et al, 2003) and transgenic SOCS expression has been shown to inhibit inflammation and apoptosis following lipopolysaccharide (LPS) injection (Jo et al, 2005).…”