Effects of methylprednisolone on intracellular bacterial growth

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1156-1163

  Meduri, G U ^a   Kanangat, S ^a   Bronze, M ^a   Patterson, D R ^a   Meduri, C U ^a   Pak, C ^a   Tolley, E A ^a   Schaberg, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL ACTIVATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STEROID THERAPY;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BACTERIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MONOCYTES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA, MESSENGER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; U937 CELLS;

EID: 0034761648     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.8.6.1156-1163.2001     Document Type: Article

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