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Table 1 Trauma-induced changes in immunity that are associated with and/or predictive of adverse patient outcomes

From: The diagnostic and prognostic value of systems biology research in major traumatic and thermal injury: a review

  

Increased risk of nosocomial infection

Development of sepsis

Mortality

Neutrophils

Frequency

Increased [60]

  

Phenotype

Decreased CD88 [80]

Increased CD11b [81]

Decreased CD88 [80]

Decreased CD88 [80]

Function

Decreased anti-microbial function [82]

Decreased anti-microbial function [83, 84]

Decreased chemotaxis [85]

 

Monocytes

Frequency

Decreased [60]

  

Phenotype

Decreased HLA-DR [80, 86]

Decreased HLA-DR [61, 8789]

Decreased HLA-DR [88]

Increased intracellular TLR9 expression [33]

Function

Decreased LPS-induced TNF-α secretion [90, 91]

  

Natural

killer cells

Frequency

Decreased [92]

  

Leukocytes

Frequency

Increased [60]

 

Increased [93]

Gene expression

Increased expression of inflammation-related genes [15, 22]

 

Increased P38 MAPK and IL-6 expression [22, 23]

Decreased expression of genes related to antigen presentation and T cell regulation [15, 22, 23]

Lymphocytes

Frequency

Decreased [60, 93]

 

Decreased [93]

  1. Abbreviations: HLA-DR human leukocyte antigen-DR, IL-6 interleukin-6, LPS lipopolysaccharide, MAPK mitogen-activated protein kinase, TLR toll-like receptor, TNF tumour necrosis factor alpha