...Martin Ploder; Andreas Spittler; Katharina Schroecksnadel; Gabriele Neurauter; Linda E. Pelinka; Erich Roth; Dietmar Fuchs Immune dysfunction in trauma patients is associated with immune system activation and inflammation. The cytokine-inducible enzyme IDO (indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase) initiates...

... unit and the number of days requiring mechanical ventilation. The two groups were homogeneous in gender, age, nutritional status and severity of trauma. There was no mortality during the study period. The infection rate was higher in controls (100%) when compared with the study group (50%; P =0.03...

... of the mechanical properties of the wound after it has been healing for a certain length of time [9, 10] but gives no information on the biochemical processes which have led to that state. We have been investigating the process of protein synthesis in skeletal muscle after trauma, and have previously found...

... in these patients was fat, despite their hyperglycaemia. 18 5 1981 29 6 1981 © 1981 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1981 fat oxidation after trauma indirect calorimetry injury metabolism trauma Clinical Science (1981) 61,789-79 1 789 SHORT COMMUNICA TION...

... and the Medical Research Society 1979 amino acids cortisol glucose glycerol insulin ketone bodies ethanol lactate non-esterified fatty acids trauma Clinical Science (1979) 56,563-573 The relationships between pIasma substgates and hormones and the severity of injury in 277 recently injured...