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01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Monocyte subset recruitment to the peritoneum following abdominal surgical incision in mice
Authors:
N Bunker, KP O'Dea, JM Handy, M Takata
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
The current gold standard animal model for sepsis is CLP [
1]; however, this model does not allow segregation of the immune responses to infection from those due to surgical incision/trauma. We hypothesised that surgical incision of the peritoneal wall in mice would be a potent stimulus for the recruitment of monocytes, particularlythe inflammatory Gr-1Hi subset [
2], to the peritoneal space where they would be capable of mounting a proinflammatory response to subsequent septic challenges. …