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Splenectomy does not affect the development of pneumonia following severe traumatic brain injury

The cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway offers a proposed mechanism to describe the increased risk of pneumonia following severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI). Vagal activity transmitted to the spleen results in decreased inflammatory cytokine production and immunosuppression. However, no clinical...

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Autores principales: Uhlich, Rindi, Pierce, Virginia, Kerby, Jeffrey, Bosarge, Patrick, Hu, Parker
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8474628/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2019.100007