Role of toll-like receptors and inflammation in adrenal gland insufficiency

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 180-183

  Kanczkowski, Waldemar ^a   Zacharowski, Kai ^b   Bornstein, Stefan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b Clinic of Anaesthesiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adrenal damage; Adrenal hemorrhage; Adrenalitis; Pattern recognition receptors; Pro inflammatory cytokines

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 8; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADRENAL CELL; ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AUTOIMMUNE POLYENDOCRINOPATHY; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA; STEROIDOGENESIS; TISSUE INJURY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMATION; SEPSIS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 76949106524     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000258718     Document Type: Conference Paper

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