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01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Effect of bacterial load versus duration of exposure to bacteria on plasma TNFα concentrations in porcine fecal peritonitis
Authors:
T Correa, L Brander, S Djafarzadeh, R Schröder, J Takala, A Reintam Blaser, M Vuda, S Mathias Jakob
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
The clinical relevance of preclinical sepsis research has been questioned [
1]. This may in part be the result of varying degrees of experimental inflammatory insults. The objective of this study was to quantify inflammation based on plasma TNFα levels after exposure to two different bacterial loads, and after different lengths of bacterial incubation in the peritoneal cavity. …