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The peripheral blood transcriptome in septic cardiomyopathy: an observational, pilot study.

Meghan M CirulisSarah J BeesleyEmily L WilsonChris StubbenTroy D OlsenEliotte L HirshbergLane M SmithMichael J LanspaTheodore P AbrahamColin K GrissomMatthew T RondinaSamuel M Brown
Published in: Intensive care medicine experimental (2019)
In this hypothesis-generating study, SCM was associated with upregulation of genes in the type 1 interferon signaling pathway. Interferons are cytokines that stimulate the innate and adaptive immune response and are implicated in the early proinflammatory and delayed immunosuppression phases of sepsis. While type 1 interferons have not been implicated previously in SCM, interferon therapy (for viral hepatitis and Kaposi sarcoma) has been associated with reversible cardiomyopathy, perhaps suggesting a role for interferon signaling in SCM.
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