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Lipid mediators in immune dysfunction after severe inflammation.

Fullerton, JN; O'Brien, AJ; Gilroy, DW; (2014) Lipid mediators in immune dysfunction after severe inflammation. Trends Immunol , 35 (1) pp. 12-21. 10.1016/j.it.2013.10.008. Green open access

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Abstract

Sepsis, trauma, burns, and major surgical procedures activate common systemic inflammatory pathways. Nosocomial infection, organ failure, and mortality in this patient population are associated with a quantitatively different reprioritization of the circulating leukocyte transcriptome to the initial inflammatory insult, greater in both magnitude and duration, and secondary to multiple observed defects in innate and adaptive immune function. Dysregulation of inflammatory resolution processes and associated bioactive lipid mediators (LMs) mechanistically contribute to this phenotype. Recent data indicate the potential efficacy of therapeutic interventions that either reduce immunosuppressive prostaglandins (PGs) or increase specialized proresolving LMs. Here, we reassess the potential for pharmacological manipulation of these LMs as therapeutic approaches for the treatment of critical illness (CI).

Type: Article
Title: Lipid mediators in immune dysfunction after severe inflammation.
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2013.10.008
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2013.10.008
Additional information: �© 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: cyclooxygenase, eicosanoids, immunosuppression, prostaglandins, resolution of inflammation, sepsis
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Experimental and Translational Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Inst for Liver and Digestive Hlth
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1430742
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