n-3 Fatty Acids, Inflammation, and Immunity-Relevance to Postsurgical and Critically Ill Patients

From: Lipids | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: Calder, Philip C | Copyright information

ABSTRACT: Excessive or inappropriate inflammation and immunosuppression are components of the response to surgery, trauma, injury, and infection in some individuals and these can lead, progressively, to sepsis and septic shock. The hyperinflammation is characterized by the production of inflammatory cytokines, arachidonic acid-derived eicosanoids, and other inflammatory mediators, while the immunosuppression is characterized by impairment of antigen presentation and of T helper cell type-\...

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