Plumbagin Protects Mice from Lethal Sepsis by Modulating Immunometabolism Upstream of PKM2

Abstract Sepsis is characterized by dysregulated systemic inflammation with release of early (for example, Interleukin (IL)-1β) and late (for example, HMGB1) proinflammatory mediators from macrophages. Plumbagin, a medicinal plant-derived naphthoquinone, has been reported to exhibit antiinflammatory...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhaoxia Zhang, Wenjun Deng, Rui Kang, Min Xie, Timothy Billiar, Haichao Wang, Lizhi Cao, Daolin Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2016-03-01
Series:Molecular Medicine
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.2119/molmed.2015.00250