Information analysis of immune and endocrine organs. Morphological changes in the course of infection.
Morphological and morphometric studies were conducted into lymphoid and endocrine organs of 259 human adults and infants with pyoinflammatory diseases (PID) and of 300 experimental mice. Informative and correlation analyses of the data thus recorded provided evidence to the effect that in the course of an infection process adaptation and compensation responses were characterized by intensified exchange of information within the immune-endocrine system (IES). Septic courses of PID were found to be accompanied by impairment of inter-organ correlations, increase in information entropy and progressive structural disorganization of the IES.
Avtandilov
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GG
Department of Pathological Anatomy, Central Institute for Advanced Medical Training, Moscow, Russia.
Barsukov
V S
VS
D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000473:pathology*; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008221:Lymphoid Tissue / Q000473:pathology*; D051379:Mice; D008808:Mice, Inbred CBA; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000473:pathology; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000473:pathology*; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000473:pathology; D018805:Sepsis / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology*; D013154:Spleen / Q000473:pathology; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000473:pathology*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000473:pathology; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000473:pathology*; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000473:pathology