Simvastatin Posttreatment Controls Inflammation and Improves Bacterial Clearance in Experimental Sepsis

• Main Authors: Flora Magno de Jesus Oliveira (Author), Cassiano Felippe Gonçalves- (Author), Isabel Matos Medeiros de Moraes (Author), Patrícia Alves Reis (Author), Vinicius Novaes Rocha (Author), Patrícia Torres Bozza (Author), Adriana Ribeiro Silva (Author), Hugo Caire de Castro Faria Neto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Sepsis is characterized by a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by an unbalanced host response to microbe infection that can lead to death. Besides being currently the leading cause of death in intensive care units worldwide, sepsis can also induce long-term consequences among survivors, such...