Soluble thrombomodulin: A sign of bad times

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 985-987

  Kurosawa, Shinichiro ^a   Stearns Kurosawa, Deborah J ^a   Kinasewitz, Gary T ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelium; Multiorgan failure; Protein C; Sepsis; Thrombomodulin

Indexed keywords

THROMBIN; THROMBOMODULIN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; CELL HETEROGENEITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SEPSIS; BLOOD; HOSPITALIZATION; NOTE;

DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; HUMANS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOMODULIN;

EID: 44449153178     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0B013E318165FDA7     Document Type: Editorial

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