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Early apoptosis of blood monocytes in the septic host: is it a mechanism of protection in the event of septic shock?

Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis*, Christina Routsi, Diamantis Plachouras, Vassiliki Markaki, Maria Raftogiannis, Dimitrios Zervakis, Vassilios Koussoulas, Stylianos Orfanos, Anastasia Kotanidou, Apostolos Armaganidis, Charis Roussos and Helen Giamarellou

Critical Care 2006, 10:R76 doi:10.1186/cc4921

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Measurement of monocyte apoptosis, plasma IL-1β and PR3 activity as an approach to evaluate the immunological status in sepsis

Hong-Ping Qu, Zhao-Jun Liu, Jia-Lin Liu Critical Care 2011, 15:434 (28 June 2011)

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Influence of genetic variations in TLR4 and TIRAP/Mal on the course of sepsis and pneumonia and cytokine release: an observational study in three cohorts

Oliver Kumpf, Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Alexander Koch, Lutz Hamann, Maria Mouktaroudi, Djin-Ye Oh, Eicke Latz, Eva Lorenz, David A Schwartz, Bart Ferwerda, Christina Routsi, Chryssanthi Skalioti, Bart-Jan Kullberg, Jos WM van der Meer, Peter M Schlag, Mihai G Netea, Kai Zacharowski, Ralf R Schumann Critical Care 2010, 14:R103 (3 June 2010)

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Year in review 2006: Critical Care – multiple organ failure, sepsis, and shock

Vladislava Simkova, Katja Baumgart, Peter Radermacher, Eberhard Barth, Enrico Calzia Critical Care 2007, 11:221 (24 August 2007)

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Kinetics of progenitor hemopoetic stem cells in sepsis: Correlation with patients survival?

Thomas Tsaganos, Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Spyridon Kollias, Dimitrios Zervakis, Vassiliki Karagianni, Aimilia Pelekanou, Ekaterini-Christina Tampaki, Marina Kontogiorgi, Apostolos Koroneos, Nikolaos Drakoulis, Apostolos Armaganidis, Charis Roussos, Helen Giamarellou BMC Infectious Diseases 2006, 6:142 (18 September 2006)

Hematopoeitic stem cells are increased in patients with ventilator-associated sepsis as compared to healthy controls; cell counts below a certain level on the first day of the study correlated with increased survival.

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Death of the septic monocyte: is more better?

Theo J Moraes, Gregory P Downey Critical Care 2006, 10:146 (2 June 2006)