Immunotherapy: a promising approach to reverse sepsis-induced immunosuppression

NK Patil, JK Bohannon, ER Sherwood - Pharmacological Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Sepsis is defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by dysregulated host
responses to infection (Third International Consensus definition for Sepsis and septic …

The apoptotic response of the lymphoid immune system to trauma, shock, and sepsis

CS Chung, IH Chaudry, A Ayala - Yearbook of Intensive Care and …, 2000 - Springer
Despite the rapid development and many significant advances in preventive methods and
clinical care, trauma remains the most common cause of mortality during the first thirty years …

Beta‐Blocker Therapy Preserves Normal Splenic T‐Lymphocyte Numbers Reduced in Proportion to Sepsis Severity in a Sepsis Model

T Suzuki, K Inoue, T Igarashi, J Kato… - … Care Research and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Lymphocyte cell death contributes to sepsis‐induced immunosuppression, leading to poor
prognosis. This study examined whether sepsis severity and beta‐blocker therapy could …

Immunological therapy of sepsis: experimental therapies

P Arndt, E Abraham - Intensive care medicine, 2001 - search.proquest.com
An excessive inflammatory response accompanies the initial stages of severe infection and
appears to contribute to associated organ system failure and death [1, 2, 3]. A number of …

Clinical trials of immunomodulatory therapies in severe sepsis and septic shock

JL Vincent, Q Sun, MJ Dubois - Clinical infectious diseases, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Sepsis remains one of the leading causes of mortality in critically ill patients. Increased
insight into the complexities of this disease process has resulted in the targeting of various …

Susceptibility to programmed cell death in T-lymphocytes from septic patients: a mechanism for lymphopenia and Th2 predominance

G Roth, B Moser, C Krenn, M Brunner… - Biochemical and …, 2003 - Elsevier
Sepsis causes lymphopenia which is inversely correlated with patient survival. The role of
apoptosis-specific immune-activation and activation-induced cell-death in sepsis is …

[PDF][PDF] Sepsis-induced immunoparalysis: mechanisms, markers, and treatment options

L Hamers, M Kox, P Pickkers - Minerva anestesiol, 2015 - researchgate.net
Sepsis remains the leading cause of death in the ICU. Considering the key role of the
immune system in sepsis, immunomodulation represents an attractive target for adjunctive …

Monocyte deactivation-rationale for a new therapeutic strategy in sepsis

HD Volk, P Reinke, D Krausch, H Zuckermann… - Intensive care …, 1996 - Springer
Inflammatory cells, in particular monocytes/macrophages, release pro-inflammatory
mediators in response to several infectious and non-infectious stimuli. The excessive …

[PDF][PDF] Sepsis: pathogenesis, biomarkers, and treatment

B Cheng, AH Hoeft, M Book, Q Shu, SM Pastores - Biomed Res Int, 2015 - core.ac.uk
Sepsis is an infection-initiated systemic inflammatory syndrome with an estimated incidence
of 18 million cases annually worldwide. Despite advances in intensive care and supportive …

[HTML][HTML] Immunotherapy in sepsis-brake or accelerate?

F Steinhagen, SV Schmidt, JC Schewe… - Pharmacology & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sepsis, a life threating syndrome characterized by organ failure after infection, is the most
common cause of death in hospitalized patients. The treatment of sepsis is generally …