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ReviewCurrent pharmaceutical design2008

Sepsis: links between pathogen sensing and organ damage.

Elliott Crouser, Matthew Exline, Daren Knoell, Mark D Wewers

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Review in Current pharmaceutical design, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Boerhaave Syndrome-Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  5. Frontiers in nutrition · 2022
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  6. The Dual Role of Myeloperoxidase in Immune Response.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  11. Sepsis: from pattern to mechanism and back.Critical reviews in biomedical engineering · 2012
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  17. The role of the liver in sepsis.International reviews of immunology
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elliott CrouserDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. crouser-1@medctr.osu.edu
Matthew Exline
Daren Knoell
Mark D Wewers
The Ohio State University · US

Funding

The cytoprotective role of zinc transporters in human lung epitheliaR01HL086981 · NHLBI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI KNOELL, DAREN LEE · 2007 to 2011
$1.9M
RIP2 Caspase-1 Signaling in MacrophagesR01HL089440 · NHLBI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI WEWERS, MARK DAMIAN · 2009 to 2013
$1.8M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL086981NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL089440
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The host's inflammatory response to sepsis can be divided into two phases, the initial detection and response to the pathogen initiated by the innate immune response, and the persistent inflammatory state characterized by multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS). New therapies aimed at pathogen recognition receptors (PRRs) particularly the TLRs and the NOD-like receptors offer hope to suppress the initial inflammatory response in early sepsis and to bolster this response in late sepsis. The persistence of MODS after the initial inflammatory surge can also be a determining factor to host survival. MODS is due to the cellular damage and death induced by sepsis. The mechanism of this cell death depends in part upon mitochondrial dysfunction. Damaged mitochondria have increased membrane permeability prompting their autophagic removal if few mitochondria are involved but apoptotic cell death may occur if the mitochondrial losses are more extensive. In addition. severe loss of mitochondria results in low cell energy stores, necrotic cell death, and increased inflammation driven by the release of cell components such as HMGB1. Therapies, which aim at improving cellular energy reserves such as the promotion of mitochondrial biogenesis by insulin, may have a role in future sepsis therapies. Finally, both the inflammatory responses and the susceptibility to organ failure may be modulated by nutritional status and micronutrients, such as zinc, Therapies aimed at micronutrient repletion may further augment approaches targeting PRR function and mitochondrial viability.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsAnimalsEnergy MetabolismHumansInflammationMitochondriaMultiple Organ FailureNod Signaling Adaptor ProteinsNutritional StatusSepsisToll-Like ReceptorsNod Signaling Adaptor ProteinsToll-Like Receptors

Identifiers

PMID18691095
PMCPMC3254059
OpenAlexW2131912771

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