Kidney-Immune System Crosstalk in AKI

Seminars in Nephrology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 96-106

  Singbartl, Kai ^a,b   Formeck, Cassandra L ^b   Kellum, John A ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute kidney injury; infection; inflammation

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; RESISTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; CYTOKINE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DENDRITIC CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DENDRITIC CELLS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTES; NEUTROPHILS; RESISTIN;

EID: 85058553126     PISSN: 02709295     EISSN: 15584488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2018.10.007     Document Type: Review

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