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Nature Medicine 10, 124 - 125 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nm0204-124

Lipid unites disparate syndromes of sepsis

Haichao Wang1, Christopher J Czura1 & Kevin J Tracey1,2

  1. Haichao Wang, Christopher J. Czura and Kevin J. Tracey are at North Shore–LIJ Research Institute, 350 Community Drive, Manhasset, New York 11030, USA.
  2. Kevin J. Tracey is a co-founder of Critical Therapeutics Inc., which develops experimental therapies that target critical care medicine. e-mail: kjtracey@sprynet.com


Sepsis is by no means a single clinical entity; physicians must battle a variety of syndromes with only a vague notion of the molecular events that connect them. This vagueness now begins to dissipate with the identification of a molecule that can prevent the development of acute septic shock and severe sepsis (pages 161–167).


In 1347, a mysterious, horrifying disease arrived in Italy and then began to march across the European continent. By the time it reached Sweden three years later, the plague had filled 20 million graves—approximately one-third of the European population.

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