A question of balance

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-8

  Zimmerman, Jerry J ^a  

^a SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Flow cytometry; Immunosuppression; Inflammation; Lymphocyte subsets; Sepsis; Thermal burns

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4;

BURN; EDITORIAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SUPPRESSOR CELL; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

BURNS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 0032952893     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199901000-00005     Document Type: Editorial

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