WNT5A and Sepsis: Abundant expression of WNT-5A is detected in the granulomatous lesions in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected lungs [42], in the chronic periodontitis tissue [127], sera and bone marrow macrophages of patients with severe sepsis [15], the atherosclerotic lesions in humans and mouse [128], in human dental pulpitis tissues [129], in circulation and visceral fat tissues of obese patients [130], and in the synovial tissue and synovial fibrobalsts from rheumatoid arthritis patients [30, 131].