High-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) as a potential therapeutic target in sepsis - More questions than answers

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1205-1206

  Waterer, Grant W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

High mobility group box 1; Mortality; Pneumonia; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; PYRUVIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEPSIS;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HMGB1 PROTEIN; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS;

EID: 34247160928     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000259171.54501.B2     Document Type: Editorial

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