Immune suppression while awaiting surgery and following it: Dissociations between plasma cytokine levels, their induced production, and NK cell cytotoxicity

Identification and purification of natural killer cell stimulatory factor (NKSF), a cytokine with multiple biologic effects on human lymphocytes.

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Life Sciences, Immunology, Molecular Biology +14

Cytokine Patterns in Patients After Major Vascular Surgery, Hemorrhagic Shock, and Severe Blunt Trauma Relation with Subsequent Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Multiple Organ Failure

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Veterinary Medicine, Pathobiology, Immunopathology +16

Systemic cytokine response after major surgery

R J Baigrie, P.M. Lamont, Dominic Kwiatkowski et al. · British journal of surgery · 1992 · 597 citations

Veterinary Medicine, Immunology, Surgery +14

Evidence that stress and surgical interventions promote tumor development by suppressing natural killer cell activity

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Life Sciences, Immunology, Oncology +17

Distinct mechanisms of immunosuppression as a consequence of major surgery

T. Hensler, H. Hecker, Klaus Heeg et al. · Infection and Immunity · 1997 · 335 citations · Full text

Veterinary Medicine, Immunology, Surgery +17