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. 2011 Mar 1;6(3):273–283. doi: 10.4161/epi.6.3.14017

Figure 3.

Figure 3

A schematic of the proposed feedback system between systemic inflammation and epigenetic imprinting of immune progenitor cells. In such a system, epigenetic modifications occur in progenitor cells during the acute phase of sepsis, resulting in re-seeding of tissues with daughter cells carrying similar histone modifications following recovery from sepsis.