Inhibition of HMGB1 by deep ocean water attenuates endotoxin-induced sepsis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1429-1430

  Kawahara, Ko ichi ^a   Hashiguchi, Teruto ^a   Ito, Takashi ^a   Kikuchi, Kiyoshi ^a   Morimoto, Yoko ^a   Shimizu, Toshiaki ^a   Oyama, Yoko ^a   Takenouchi, Kazunori ^a   Arimura, Shin ichiro ^a   Taniguchi, Noboru ^a   Maruyama, Ikuro ^a   Iwata, Masahiro ^a   Tancharoen, Salunya ^b   Unoshima, Masako ^c   Iwasaka, Hideo ^c  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCT RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE; DEEP OCEAN WATER; ENDOTOXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SEA WATER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CROHN DISEASE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOTOXEMIA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LETTER; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEPSIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ANIMALS; ENDOTOXINS; HMGB1 PROTEIN; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEAWATER; SEPSIS;

EID: 33947639613     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.10.025     Document Type: Letter

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