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Temperature and host defense.

N J Roberts
- 01 Jun 1979 - 
- Vol. 43, Iss: 2, pp 241-259
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This article is published in Microbiological Research.The article was published on 1979-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 142 citations till now.

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The Clinical Significance of Positive Blood Cultures: A Comprehensive Analysis of 500 Episodes of Bacteremia and Fungemia in Adults. II. Clinical Observations, with Special Reference to Factors Influencing Prognosis

TL;DR: Although some adverse prognostic factors are not amenable to intervention, prevention of nosocomial bacteremia and fungemia and early reversal of hypotension may reduce the death rate from sepsis.
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New Concepts on the Pathogenesis of Fever

TL;DR: Investigators trying to determine what triggers the hypothalamus to initiate fever in a particular disease must now consider these three endogenous pyrogens, either alone or together, as mediators of fever.
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Stress and immune function: a bibliographic review.

TL;DR: This paper identifies eight stressors that typically occur in modern livestock production units: heat, cold, crowding, mixing, weaning, limit-feeding, noise and restraint, all of which have been shown to alter the immune system of animals.
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Pathogenicity of influenza virus.

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Fever: causes and consequences.

TL;DR: The present review examines fever-resistance in neonates, the blunting of fever in the aged, and the behaviorally induced rise in body temperature following infection in ectotherms, and takes up the question of whether fever enhances immune responsiveness, and through such enhancement contributes to host survival.
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Iron and infection.

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Cellular responses to combinations of hyperthermia and radiation.

TL;DR: The two principal rationales for applying hyperthermia in cancer therapy are that: the S phase, which is relatively radioresistant, is the most sensitive phase tohyperthermia, and can be selectively radiosensitized by combining hyperThermia with x-irradiation, and the cycling tumor cells in S phase could be killed by subjecting these cells toHyperthermia.
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Selective heat sensitivity of cancer cells. Biochemical and clinical studies.

TL;DR: No conclusions about survivals can be drawn at present although four of seven patients with malignant melanomas treated only by heat perfusion are alive and well with functional limbs 28, 27, 11 and 7 months after treatment.
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Variation in Sensitivity to Heat Shock during the Cell-cycle of Chinese Hamster Cells in Vitro

TL;DR: Heating of synchronous cells, obtained by the selective removal of mitotic cells from an asynchronous population, revealed that the mitotic and S phases were the most sensitive, primarily indicated by the smaller shoulders on the survival curves compared with the curve for cells heated in the resistant G1 phase.
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