Low-Dose Steroid Therapy Is Associated with Decreased IL-12 Production in PBMCs of Severe Septic Patients - Chen, Tien-Hsing; Chuang, Duen-Yau; Shih, Chi-Chung; Wu, Huang-Pin (Mediators of Inflammation, 2016)
Keywords: Aged; Care and treatment; Cells, Cultured; Cytokines; Drug dosages; Endocrine system; Female; Flow Cytometry; Generalized linear models; Health aspects; Histocompatibility antigens; HLA histocompatibility antigens; Hospitals; Humans; Immune system; Infection; Interleukin-10 - metabolism; Interleukin-12 - metabolism; Interleukin-6 - metabolism; Interleukins; Leukocytes, Mononuclear; Linear Models; Male; Mortality; Patients; Production management; Receptors, Interleukin - metabolism; Retrospective Studies; Sepsis; Sepsis - drug therapy; Sepsis - immunology; Sepsis - metabolism; Steroids; Steroids - administration & dosage; Steroids - therapeutic use; Transforming Growth Factor beta1 - metabolism; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha - metabolism; Tumor necrosis factor-TNF