Peptidoglycan is an important pathogenic factor of the inflammatory response in sepsis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 613-614

  Zingarelli, Basilia ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Nuclear factor B; Peptidoglycan; Sepsis; Signal transduction; Toll like receptor

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENDOTOXIN; EXOTOXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD FLOW; EDITORIAL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; SEPSIS;

EID: 1242319987     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000110674.86272.9A     Document Type: Editorial

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