A Role for Tumor Necrosis Factor- α in the Increased Mortality Associated with Vibrio Vulnificus Infection in the Presence of Hepatic Dysfunction

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 223, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 428-433

  Joseph Espat, N ^a   Auffenberg, Troy ^a   Abouhamze, Amer ^a   Baumhofer, Julie ^a   Moldawer, Lyle L ^a   Howard, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SEPTICEMIA; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VIBRIO INFECTIONS;

EID: 0029978283     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199604000-00012     Document Type: Article

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