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Impact of oral simvastatin therapy on acute lung injury in mice during pneumococcal pneumonia
BACKGROUND: Recent studies suggest that the reported protective effects of statins (HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors) against community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and sepsis in humans may be due to confounders and a healthy user-effect. To directly test whether statins are protective against Streptococcus...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3438118/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22587610 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-12-73 |