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...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2016-03-01
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Series: | Molecular Medicine |
Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.2119/molmed.2015.00250 |