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Query: UMLS:C0036690 (sepsis)
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The efficacy of papain, a proteolytic enzyme made in the USSR, was studied alone and in combination with antibiotics, such as benzylpenicillin, streptomycin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, erythromycin and novobiocin in treatment of mice with septicemia caused by antibiotic-resistant staphylococci. It was shown that the enzyme increased the chemotherapeutic efficacy of the antibiotics on the average by 50 per cent. When used alone in a dose of 0.1 mg per mouse papain prevented death in 20 per cent of animals. The high chemotherapeutic efficacy of the antibiotic combinations with papain allowed recommending it for use in clinical practice for the treatment of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant staphylococci.
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PMID:[Chemotherapeutic effectiveness of antibiotics in combination with papain in experimental septicemia]. 669

IL-17C, which is a member of the IL-17 family of cytokines, is preferentially produced by epithelial cells in the lung, skin and colon, suggesting that IL-17C may be involved in not only host defense but also inflammatory diseases in those tissues. In support of that, IL-17C was demonstrated to contribute to development of T cell-dependent imiquimod-induced psoriatic dermatitis and T cell-independent dextran sodium sulfate-induced acute colitis using mice deficient in IL-17C and/or IL-17RE, which is a component of the receptor for IL-17C. However, the roles of IL-17C in other inflammatory diseases remain poorly understood. Therefore, we investigated the contributions of IL-17C to development of certain disease models using Il17c-/- mice, which we newly generated. Those mice showed normal development of T cell-dependent inflammatory diseases such as FITC- and DNFB-induced contact dermatitis/contact hypersensitivity (CHS) and concanavalin A-induced hepatitis, and T cell-independent inflammatory diseases such as bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis, papain-induced airway eosinophilia and LPS-induced airway neutrophilia. On the other hand, those mice were highly resistant to LPS-induced endotoxin shock, indicating that IL-17C is crucial for protection against that immunological reaction. Therefore, IL-17C neutralization may represent a novel therapeutic approach for sepsis, in addition to psoriasis and acute colitis.
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PMID:The roles of IL-17C in T cell-dependent and -independent inflammatory diseases. 3035 86