Cytokines in severe sepsis and septic shock /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Redl, Heinz, Schlag, Günther
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, c1999.
Series:PIR (Series)
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Endotoxin as an inducer of cytokines
  • Acute lung inflammation in septic shock of the cytokine release induced by bacterial superantigens
  • Lipopolysaccharide signaling pathways and their role in the development of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome
  • Predisposing factors
  • Predisposing factors: effect of sex, nutritional factors and age on immunity following shock and sepsis
  • Genetics: cytokine polymorphisms
  • Diagnostic
  • Possibilities and problems of cytokine measurements
  • Soluble TNF receptors
  • Relevance of surrogate tests in intensive care patients or "Heisenberg at the ICU"
  • Actions (selected events)
  • Nitric oxide and endothelin-1 in circulatory shock involving cytokines
  • Multistep processes in neutrophil homotypic aggregation and tissue injury
  • Cytokines, coagulation and fibrinolysis
  • Apoptosis: its role in the systemic inflammatory response syndrome and the involvement of cytokines
  • Importance of cytokine metabolism for malnutrition, catabolism and endocrinological state in sepsis
  • Therapy
  • Endotoxin scavengers as a therapeutic strategy for sepsis
  • Interfering with the production of cytokines in sepsis
  • Neutralizing antibodies and receptor constructs
  • Immunomodulation following shock and sepsis
  • Gene therapy, an alternative approach for anti-cytokine therapies
  • The failure of clinical trials in sepsis
  • The failure of clinical trials in sepsis: challenges of pre-clinical models
  • The failure of clinical trials in sepsis: challenges of clinical trial design.