The Role of Humoral Factors in Endotoxin-Induced Reactions

摘要: Within the last half-decade it has become abundantly clear that many of biological effects bacterial endotoxin are mediated by what is believed to be a number different protein and glycoprotein molecules (Berry, 1977; Moore Berry, 1982). These derived from cells reticuloendothelial system (RES), especially macrophages but other as well. It intriguing realize diffuse tissue such RES qualifies functionally part endocrine mediators hormones. There no anatomical or physiological reason why this should not true since chromaffin tissue, source epinephrine norephinephrine, also diffusely distributed.