Cytokine modulation in sepsis and septic shock
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Sepsis and septic shock are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients admitted to the intensive care unit. Since the introduction of antibiotic therapy, the mortality associated with sepsis has remained within the 30- 50% range. Sepsis constitutes the systemic response to infection. This response encompasses both pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory phases that are marked by the sequential generation of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines. Among the most important pro-inflammatory cytokines are TNF-alpha and IL-1beta. The pro-inflammatory effects of such cytokines are inhibited by soluble receptors/receptor antagonists and anti-inflammatory cytokines including IL-10 and transforming growth factor-beta. Modulation of the activity of both pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines to improve outcome in patients with sepsis has been subject of multiple clinical studies. This review will examine clinical trials evaluating several strategies for blocking or attenuating TNF-alpha and IL-1beta activity. This review will also survey the current state of experimental therapies involving IL-10, transforming growth factor-beta, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and IFN-phi. Finally, newer developments related to less known cytokines such as macrophage migration inhibitory factor and high mobility group 1 protein will be evaluated.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it