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Hyperglycaemia in critically ill patients: the immune system’s sweet tooth

There is an ongoing debate regarding the efficacy of glycaemic control in critically ill patients. Here we briefly highlight the key function of elevated glucose in critically ill patients, namely, to enable elevation of aerobic glycolysis in rapidly dividing cells. In particular, aerobic glycolysis...

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Autores principales: van Niekerk, Gustav, Davis, Tanja, Engelbrecht, Anna-Mart
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28768529
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-017-1775-1