Cortisone, ACTH and Infection

Overview

Journal Bull N Y Acad Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1955 Jul 1

PMID 14378830

Citations 6

Authors

L Thomas

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Actions of cortisone on cutaneous and pulmonary neoplasms induced in mice by cutaneous applications of methylcholanthrene.

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References

SULZBERGER M, Herrmann F, PICCAGLI R, FRANK L . Incidence of epidermal methylcholanthrene tumors in mice after administration of cortisone. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1953; 82(4):673-5. DOI: 10.3181/00379727-82-20215. View

Toolan H . Growth of human tumors in cortisone-treated laboratory animals: the possibility of obtaining permanently transplantable human tumors. Cancer Res. 1953; 13(4-5):389-94. View

FOLEY E, SILVERSTEIN R . Progressive growth of C3H mouse lymphosarcoma in CF1 mice treated with cortisone acetate. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1951; 77(4):713-5. DOI: 10.3181/00379727-77-18902. View

Thomas L . The effects of cortisone and adrenocorticotropic hormone on infection. Annu Rev Med. 1952; 3:1-24. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.me.03.020152.000245. View

AGOSIN M, Christen R, BADINEZ O, GASIC G, NEGHME A, PIZARRO O . Cortisone-induced metastases of adenocarcinoma in mice. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1952; 80(1):128-31. DOI: 10.3181/00379727-80-19544. View

Thomas L, GOOD R . The effect of cortisone on the Shwartzman reaction; the production of lesions resembling the dermal and generalized Shwartzman reactions by a single injection of bacterial toxin in cortisone-treated rabbits. J Exp Med. 1952; 95(4):409-28. PMC: 2212064. DOI: 10.1084/jem.95.4.409. View

Robinson H, Mason R, Smith A . Beneficial effects of cortisone on survival of rats infected with D. pneumoniae. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1953; 84(2):312-4. DOI: 10.3181/00379727-84-20630. View

Selye H . The influence of STH, ACTH and cortisone upon resistance to infection. Can Med Assoc J. 1951; 64(6):489-94. PMC: 1821916. View

Thomas L, GOOD R . Studies on the generalized Shwartzman reaction: I. General observations concerning the phenomenon. J Exp Med. 1952; 96(6):605-24. PMC: 2136175. DOI: 10.1084/jem.96.6.605. View

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Thomas L, Smith R, VON KORFF R . Cold-precipitation by heparin of a protein in rabbit and human plasma. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1954; 86(4):813-8. DOI: 10.3181/00379727-86-21241. View

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Slocumb C . Rheumatic complaints during chronic hypercortisonism and syndromes during withdrawal of cortisone in rheumatic patients. Proc Staff Meet Mayo Clin. 1953; 28(23):655-7. View

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Thomas L, DENNY Jr F, Floyd J . Studies on the generalized Shwartzman reaction. III. Lesions of the myocardium and coronary arteries accompanying the reaction in rabbits prepared by infection with group A streptococci. J Exp Med. 1953; 97(5):751-66. PMC: 2136300. DOI: 10.1084/jem.97.5.751. View

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DENNY Jr F, Thomas L . Persistence of group A streptococci in tissues of rabbits after infection. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1955; 88(2):260-3. DOI: 10.3181/00379727-88-21557. View

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SPINK W, Hall W . The influence of cortisone and adrenocorticotrophic hormone on brucellosis. II. Adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) in acute and chronic human brucellosis. J Clin Invest. 1952; 31(11):958-68. PMC: 436497. DOI: 10.1172/JCI102688. View

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Smith R, Thomas L, GOOD R . Generalized Shwartzman reaction. V. Intravenous injection of collidal iron or carbon on response of rabbits to meningococcal toxin. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1953; 82(4):712-5. DOI: 10.3181/00379727-82-20226. View

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MOGABGAB W, Thomas L . The effects of cortisone on bacterial infection; group A hemolytic streptococcal infection in rabbits. J Lab Clin Med. 1952; 39(2):271-89. View

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KASS E, FINLAND M . Adrenocortical hormones in infection and immunity. Annu Rev Microbiol. 1953; 7:361-88. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.mi.07.100153.002045. View

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Thomas L . The physiological disturbances produced by endotoxins. Annu Rev Physiol. 1954; 16:467-90. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ph.16.030154.002343. View

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Thomas L, Smith R . Effect of cortisone on response to endotoxin in mature rabbits. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1954; 86(4):810-3. DOI: 10.3181/00379727-86-21240. View

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SPINK W, Anderson D . Experimental studies on the significance of endotoxin in the pathogenesis of brucellosis. J Clin Invest. 1954; 33(4):540-8. PMC: 1087268. DOI: 10.1172/JCI102924. View