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Matthijs Kox

Assistant Professor, department of Intensive Care Medicine, Radboud University Medical …
Verified email at radboudumc.nl
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Immunotherapy for the adjunctive treatment of sepsis: from immunosuppression to immunostimulation. Time for a paradigm change?

J Leentjens, M Kox, JG van der Hoeven… - American journal of …, 2013 - atsjournals.org
Sepsis is the leading cause of death in the intensive care unit and ranks in the top 10
causes of death in general worldwide. Proinflammatory mediators are related to symptoms …

Voluntary activation of the sympathetic nervous system and attenuation of the innate immune response in humans

M Kox, LT Van Eijk, J Zwaag… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Excessive or persistent proinflammatory cytokine production plays a central role in autoimmune
diseases. Acute activation of the sympathetic nervous system attenuates the innate …

[HTML][HTML] The COVID-19 puzzle: deciphering pathophysiology and phenotypes of a new disease entity

…, S Weis, A Garcia-Salido, M Kox… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
The zoonotic SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, with
devastating consequences. While the medical community has gained insight into the …

Cytokine levels in critically ill patients with COVID-19 and other conditions

M Kox, NJB Waalders, EJ Kooistra, J Gerretsen… - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Methods| All patients in this study were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of Radboud
University Medical Center. Plasma concentrations of the proinflammatory cytokines tumor …

[PDF][PDF] The itaconate pathway is a central regulatory node linking innate immune tolerance and trained immunity

…, C Wijmenga, A Michelucci, T van der Poll, M Kox… - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
Sepsis involves simultaneous hyperactivation of the immune system and immune paralysis,
leading to both organ dysfunction and increased susceptibility to secondary infections. Acute …

[HTML][HTML] Swarm learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning

…, MMB Breteler, EJ Giamarellos-Bourboulis, M Kox… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Fast and reliable detection of patients with severe and heterogeneous illnesses is a major
goal of precision medicine 1 , 2 . Patients with leukaemia can be identified using machine …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of anakinra on mortality in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and patient-level meta-analysis

…, M Gattorno, R Cauchois, E Kooistra, M Kox… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Anakinra might improve the prognosis of patients with moderate to severe
COVID-19 (ie, patients requiring oxygen supplementation but not yet receiving organ support). …

[PDF][PDF] β-Glucan reverses the epigenetic state of LPS-induced immunological tolerance

…, W Megchelenbrink, B Kim, T Kuznetsova, M Kox… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Innate immune memory is the phenomenon whereby innate immune cells such as
monocytes or macrophages undergo functional reprogramming after exposure to microbial …

Broad defects in the energy metabolism of leukocytes underlie immunoparalysis in sepsis

…, EJ Giamarellos-Bourboulis, M Kox… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The acute phase of sepsis is characterized by a strong inflammatory reaction. At later stages
in some patients, immunoparalysis may be encountered, which is associated with a poor …

Current gaps in sepsis immunology: new opportunities for translational research

…, F Venet, M Bauer, FM Brunkhorst, M Kox… - The Lancet infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Increasing evidence supports a central role of the immune system in sepsis, but the current
view of how sepsis affects immunity, and vice versa, is still rudimentary. The European Group …