Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The stimulation of unspecific resistance — A doctor's dilemma revisited

  • Editorial
  • Published:
Infection Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Heubel, E. Pathogenese und Symptome der chronischen Bleivergiftung. Verlag August Hirschwald, Berlin, 1871.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Ehrlich, P.: Über den jetzigen Stand der Chemotherapie. Ber. dtsch. chem. Ges. (1909) 150–170.

  3. Pasteur, L., Joubert, J. Charon et septicémie. Comptes rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 85 (1877) 101–115.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Vuillemin, P. Antibiose et Symbiose. Association Française d'Avances en Sciences 2 (1889) 525–543.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Shaw, G. B. The doctor's dilemma. Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondworth, Middlesex, England (1906).

    Google Scholar 

  6. Hoff, F. Fieber. Unspezifische Abwehrvorgänge, unspezifische Therapie. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, 1957.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Bradley, T. R., Metcalf, D. The growth of mouse bone marrow cellsin vitro. Austr. J. Exp. Biol. Med. Sci. 44 (1966) 287–299.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Ichikawa, Y., Pluznik, D. H., Sachs, L. In vitro control of the development of macrophage and granulocyte colonies. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 56 (1966) 488–495.

    Google Scholar 

  9. Clark, S. C., Kamen, R. The human hematopoietic colony-stimulating factors. Science 236 (1987) 1229–1237.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Krumwieh, D., Schulz, G., Seiler, F. R. Rationals for the development of the human hematopoietic colony-stimulating factors as therapeutical useful drugs. Behring Inst. Mit. 82 (1988) 265–281.

    Google Scholar 

  11. McIntyre, K. W., Unowsky, J., DeLorenzo, W., Benjamin, W.: Enhancement of antibacterial resistance of neutropenic, bone marrow-suppressed mice by interleukin-1a. Infect. Immun. (1989) 48–54.

  12. McIntyre, K. W., Unowsky, J., DeLorenzo, W. et al.: Stimulation of hematopoiesis and antibacterial resistance by interleukin-1. Biotherapy (1989 in press).

  13. Matsumoto, M., Matsubara, S., Matsuno, T. et al.: Protective effect of human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor on microbial infection in neutropenic mice. Infect. Immun. 55 (1987) 2715–2720.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Drews, J. A role for immune stimulation in the treatment of microbial infections? Infection 8 (1980) 2–4.

    Google Scholar 

  15. Mayer, P., Drews, J. The effect of a protein-bound polysaccharide fromCoriolus versicolor on immunological parameters and experimental infections in mice. Infection 8 (1980) 13–21.

    Google Scholar 

  16. Mayer, P., Hamberger, H., Drews, J. Differential effects of ubiquinone Q7 and ubiquinone analogs of macrophage activation and experimental infections in granulocytopenic mice. Infection 8 (1980) 256–261.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Gabrilove, J. L., Jakubowski, A., Scher, H. et al.: Effect of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor on neutropenia and associated morbidity due to chemotherapy for transitional-cell carcinoma of the urothelium. New Engl. J. Med. 318 (1988) 1414–1422.

    Google Scholar 

  18. Antman, K. S., Griffin, J. D., Elias, A. et al.: Effect of recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor on chemotherapy-induced myelosuppression. New Engl. J. Med. 319 (1988) 593–598.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, CH-4002, Basel, Switzerland

    J. Drews

Authors
  1. J. Drews
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Drews, J. The stimulation of unspecific resistance — A doctor's dilemma revisited. Infection 17, 201–202 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01639519

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01639519

Search

Navigation