Immune response in the critically ill
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Immune response in the critically ill
(Update in intensive care and emergency medicine, 31)
Springer, c2000
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book brings together basic scientists or clinicians from a variety of different backgrounds - immunology, infectious diseases or critical care - who share a common interest in understanding the changes that occur in immune responses in sepsis. It provides an up to date and unrivalled synthesis of current research in this rapidly developing field.
Table of Contents
From the Contents: The Four Ds of the Danger Model: Distress, Damage, Destruction, and Death * The Immune Response in Critical Illness: Excessive, Inadequate od Dysregulated * Genomics of the Sepsis Syndrome * The Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Cascade * Inhibitory Cytokines * Bacterial Toxines Induce Specific Cytokine Patterns in Vivo and in Vitro * The Acute Phase Response and Enhancing Resistance to Bacterial Infection * Cytokines as Mediators of Lung Innate Immunity * Fetuin Opsonizes Macrophage-Deactivating Cations * LPS Receptors * Regulation of Cellular Responses to Bacterial Endotoxin * The Role of Nitric Oxide in the Initiation of Inflammation in Shock * Regulation of Neutrophil Activation in Acute Lung Injury and SIRS * Neutrophils and Tissue Injury * Lymphocyte Activation, Anergy and Apoptosis in Polymicrobial Sepsis * Programmed Cell Death (Apoptosis) and the Immunologic Derangements of Critical Illness * The Endothelium as an Immune Organ: Active Player and Passive Target. The complete table of contents can be found on the Internet: http:// www springer.de
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