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ReviewJournal of innate immunity2018

The Understanding and Management of Organism Toxicity in Septic Shock.

Kelly Roveran Genga, Tadanaga Shimada, John H Boyd, Keith R Walley, James A Russell

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Review in Journal of innate immunity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Host-Microbe Multiomic Profiling Predicts Mortality in Sepsis.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2026
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Neutrophil extracellular traps mediate mInternational journal of biological sciences · 2022
    Article
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  7. Fluid Therapy in Dogs and Cats With Sepsis.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2021
    Review
  8. Who is WHO?Journal of innate immunity · 2020
    Article
  9. The Road Not Taken: Commensal or Virulent Pathogen.Journal of innate immunity · 2020
    Article
  10. Immune Response in Bacterial andEuropean journal of microbiology & immunology · 2019
    Review
  11. Article
  12. Tackling the Pros and Cons of Inflammation.Journal of innate immunity · 2019
    Article
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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kelly Roveran GengaCentre for Heart Lung Innovation, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Tadanaga ShimadaCentre for Heart Lung Innovation, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
John H BoydCentre for Heart Lung Innovation, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Keith R WalleyCentre for Heart Lung Innovation, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
James A RussellCentre for Heart Lung Innovation, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadajim.russell@hli.ubc.ca.
St. Paul's Hospital · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The toxicity caused by different organisms in septic shock is substantially complex and characterized by an intricate pathogenicity that involves several systems and pathways. Immune cells' pattern recognition receptors initiate the host response to pathogens after the recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns. In essence, the subsequent activation of downstream pathways may progress to infection resolution or to a dysregulated host response that represents the hallmark of organ injury in septic shock. Likewise, the management of organism toxicity in septic shock is complicated and comprises a multiplicity of suitable targets. In this review, the classic immune responses to pathogens are discussed as well as other factors that are relevant in the pathogenicity of septic shock, including sepsis-induced immune suppression, inflammasome activation, intestinal permeability, and the role of lipids and proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9. Current therapies aiming to eliminate the organisms causing septic shock, recent and ongoing trials in septic shock treatment, and potential new therapeutic strategies are also explored.

Indexed as

AnimalsApoptosisBacterial InfectionsHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmune ToleranceIntestinal MucosaLipid MetabolismPathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern MoleculesProprotein Convertase 9Receptors, Pattern RecognitionShock, SepticSignal TransductionTight JunctionsPathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern MoleculesPCSK9 protein, humanProprotein Convertase 9Receptors, Pattern RecognitionMediatorsPCSK9SepsisSeptic shockTherapies

Identifiers

PMID29763894
PMCPMC6785648
OpenAlexW2803183027

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