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01-03-2018 | Meeting abstracts
38th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
Brussels, Belgium. 20-23 March 2018
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Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2018
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Excerpt
Introduction: Leukocyte dysfunction may play a role in sepsis pathogenesis. Established evidence showed that leukocyte dysfunction leads to reduced immune response and consequently an increased sepsis-related mortality. Impaired metabolism has been recently proposed as one possible mechanisms underpinning leukocyte dysfunction in sepsis. In this study, we investigated the global changes in leukocyte metabolism in sepsis, using an established in vitro model of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation. …