Vascular dysfunction following polymicrobial sepsis: role of pattern recognition receptors.

AIMS: Aim was to elucidate the specific role of pattern recognition receptors in vascular dysfunction during polymicrobial sepsis (colon ascendens stent peritonitis, CASP). METHODS AND RESULTS: Vascular contractility of C57BL/6 (wildtype) mice and mice deficient for Toll-like receptor 2/4/9 (TLR2-D,...

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Main Authors: Stefan Felix Ehrentraut, Anne Dörr, Heidi Ehrentraut, Ralph Lohner, Sun-Hee Lee, Andreas Hoeft, Georg Baumgarten, Pascal Knuefermann, Olaf Boehm, Rainer Meyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3436884?pdf=render