Immunoenhancing therapy with interleukin- 18 against bacterial infection in immunocompromised hosts after severe surgical stress

Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 689-698

  Kinoshita, Manabu ^a   Miyazaki, Hiromi ^b   Ono, Satoshi ^b   Seki, Shuhji ^a  

^a Department of Immunology and Microbiology ^*  (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Burn injury; IgM; Interferon ; Neutrophils; Th1; Th2

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 18 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BURN; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; KUPFFER CELL; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL STRESS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BURNS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-18; KUPFFER CELLS; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; NEUTROPHILS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-18; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 84877071336     PISSN: 07415400     EISSN: 19383673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1189/jlb.1012502     Document Type: Review

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