Functional Polymorphisms of Interferon-gamma Affect Pneumonia-Induced Sepsis: e87049

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 9; no. 1
• Main Authors: Wang, Ding, Zhong, Xuan, Huang, Dongjian, Chen, Rui, Bai, Guibin, Li, Qing, Yu, Bolan, Fan, Yong, Sun, Xiaofang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.01.2014

Objective Sepsis is an inflammatory syndrome caused by infection, and both its incidence and mortality are high. Because interferon-gamma (IFN- gamma ) plays an important role in inflammation, this work assessed IFN- gamma single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) that may be associated with sepsis. Met...