Arginine, glutamine, and dehydroepiandrosterone reverse the immunosuppressive effect of prednisone during gut-derived sepsis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1207-1214

  Gennari, Roberto ^a   Alexander, J Wesley ^a  

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

Author keywords

Arginine; Burn injury; Dehydroepiandrosterone; Escheric hia coli; Glutamine; Immunonutrients; Immunosuppression; Infection; Prednisone; Translocation

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLUTAMINE; PRASTERONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BURN; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTESTINE LYMPHATIC TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ARGININE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GLUTAMINE; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PREDNISONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEPSIS;

EID: 0030764423     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199707000-00024     Document Type: Article

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