Differential desensitization of lipopoly
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Andreas Kaufmann; Diethard Gemsa; Hans Sprenger
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has been shown to induce a wide variety of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines. An initial challenge with minute amounts of LPS causes tolerance to later LPS effects which is characterized by a much lower or abrogated release of pro-inflammatory cytokines. To