Assessment of immune organ dysfunction in critical illness: utility of innate immune response markers

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Pfortmueller, Carmen Andrea ^a   Meisel, Christian ^b   Fux, Michaela ^a   Schefold, Joerg C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Critical illness; HLA DR expression; Immune function; Immune modulation; Immune suppression; Immunomodulation; mHLA DR; Sepsis; Sepsis associated immunosuppression

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HLA DR ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; BURN; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CRITICAL ILLNESS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE ORGAN DYSFUNCTION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MONOCYTE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEUTROPHIL; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREATITIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK;

EID: 85044949376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2197425X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40635-017-0163-0     Document Type: Review

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