Gene variants of the bactericidal/permeability increasing protein and lipopolysaccharide binding protein in sepsis patients: Gender-specific genetic predisposition to sepsis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 557-561

  Hubacek, Jaroslav A ^a,c   Stüber, Frank ^b   Fröhlich, Dieter ^a   Book, Malte ^b   Wetegrove, Silke ^b   Ritter, Mirko ^a   Rothe, Gregor ^a   Schmitz, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine ^*  (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bactericidal permeability increasing protein; Critical illness; Gene polymorphisms; Genetics; Gram negative bacteria; Infection; Lipopolysaccharide binding protein; Lipopolysaccharides; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

BACTERICIDAL PERMEABILITY INCREASING PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS;

EID: 0035103891     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200103000-00015     Document Type: Article

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