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Cytokine storm and sepsis disease pathogenesis.
Seminars in immunopathology - 1 Jul 2017
Chousterman Benjamin G, Swirski Filip K, Weber Georg F
Abstract excerpt
Infectious diseases are a leading cause of death worldwide. Sepsis is a severe clinical syndrome related to the host response to infection. The severity of infections is due to an activation cascade that will lead to an autoamplifying cytokine production: the cytokine storm. Cytokines are a broad category of relatively small proteins (<40 kDa) that are produced and released with the aim of cell signaling. Our...
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