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Review
. 1992 Jan;8(1):163-89.

Inflammatory host responses in sepsis

J J Zimmerman  1 , T V Ringer
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  • PMID: 1732028
Review

Inflammatory host responses in sepsis

J J Zimmerman et al. Crit Care Clin. 1992 Jan.

Abstract

Although microbes and their associated toxins initiate sepsis, it is the subsequent host inflammatory response that defines most of what we characterize as clinical sepsis. This article considers the various cellular as well as humoral mediators involved in this response in addition to the complex networking that may result in both augmentation and modulation of the inflammatory response in sepsis.

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