The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal response to critical illness

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 495-511

  Vermes, I ^b   Beishuizen, A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ACTH; Acute and chronic adaptation; Atrial natriuretic hormone; Cortisol binding globulin; Critical illness; Cytokines; Dehydroepiandrosterone; Endothelin; Free hormone; Glucocorticoid receptor; Glucocorticoids; Immuno neuroendocrine interactions; Macrophage migration inhibitory factor; Neuropeptides; Paracrine actions

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CYTOKINE; ENDOTHELIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID; NEUROPEPTIDE; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; TRANSCORTIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ANDROGENESIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; REVIEW; STEROIDOGENESIS; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0035746639     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/beem.2001.0166     Document Type: Article

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