Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 16850005
Crit. Care Med. 2006 Sep;34(9):2377-85
Immune status is altered during systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis. Reduced ex vivo tumor necrosis factor production has been regularly reported with lipopolysaccharide-activated monocytes. In this study, we addressed the specificity of this hyporeactivity and investigated some of the possible associated mechanistic events.