Other transcripts upregulated in CD5L− peritoneal cells, including Osm, Il18bp, Ripk1, Nub1, Tlr2, Stat1, Irf1, Nfkb1, Pik3r5, or their coding proteins (Fig. 2d), were already associated with sepsis severity49–57. This evidence concerns the gene TLR2 and Sepsis.