Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a devastating disease with distinct
pathological stages. Fundamental to ARDS is the acute onset of lung inflammation as a part …

Introduction Biomarkers can be useful for identifying or ruling out sepsis, identifying patients
who may benefit from specific therapies or assessing the response to therapy. Methods We …

Acute myocardial infarction (MI) causes sterile inflammation, which is characterized by
recruitment and activation of innate and adaptive immune system cells. Here we delineate …

Sepsis represents the host's systemic inflammatory response to a severe infection. It causes
substantial human morbidity resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths each year …

Sepsis is a serious clinical condition that represents a patient's response to a severe
infection and has a very high mortality rate. Normal immune and physiologic responses …

Although eosinophils are considered useful in defense mechanisms against parasites, their
exact function in innate immunity remains unclear. The aim of this study is to better …

The development and clinical implementation of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) has
revolutionized the treatment of chronic hepatitis C. Infection with any hepatitis C virus (HCV) …

Introduction Severe sepsis is characterized by an initial hyper-inflammatory response that
may progress to an immune-suppressed state associated with increased susceptibility to …

Introduction Studies on the role of programmed death-1 (PD-1) and its main ligand (PD-L1)
during experimental models of sepsis have shown that the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway plays a …

Graphene oxide (GO) is attracting an ever-growing interest in different fields and
applications. Not much is known about the possible impact of GO sheet lateral dimensions …