Chronic exposure to multiple bacterial toxins - Enough is as good as a feast

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1285-1286

  Lehmann, Christian ^a   Birnbaum, Jürgen ^a   Gründling, Matthias ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cholestasis; Endotoxin; Exotoxin; Hepatocellular dysfunction; Lipopolysaccharide; Multisystem organ failure; Rat; Sepsis; Staphylococcal enterotoxin B

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENDOTOXIN; EXOTOXIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CHOLESTASIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; RATS; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPERANTIGENS;

EID: 0037387606     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000060003.75787.F0     Document Type: Editorial

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