The oxidative stress of hyperglycemia and the inflammatory process in endothelial cells.
Hyperglycemia and insulin resistance are common in many critically ill patients. Hyperglycemia increases the production of reactive oxygen species in cells, stimulates the production of the potent proinflammatory cytokines IL-8 and TNF-alpha, and enhances the expression of haem oxygenase-1, an induc...
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The University of Tokushima, Faculty of Medicine
2009
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