Browsing Vanderbilt University Medical Center by Title
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(Frontiers in Neurology, 2019-05-01)Background: Asphyxia is the most common cause of brain damage in newborns. Substantial evidence indicates that leukocyte recruitment in the cerebral vasculature during asphyxia contributes to this damage. We tested the ...
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(Nature Communications, 2019-05)The number of available donor organs limits lung transplantation, the only lifesaving therapy for the increasing population of patients with end-stage lung disease. A prevalent etiology of injury that renders lungs ...
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(Children-Basel, 2019-08)Children and adolescents with cancer often participate in medical and psychosocial research throughout their diagnosis and treatment. Furthermore, this involvement frequently extends into the survivorship period. Sometimes ...
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(MBIO, 2019-03)Biofilms are multicellular bacterial communities encased in a self-secreted extracellular matrix comprised of polysaccharides, proteinaceous fibers, and DNA. Organization of these components lends spatial organization to ...
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(2019-03)The gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori causes a persistent infection that is directly responsible for gastric ulcers and gastric cancer in some patients and protective against allergic and other immunological disorders ...
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(Journal of the American Heart Association, 2020-01-21)
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(Archives of Gerontogy and Geriatrics, 2020-03)Background/objectives: Available metrics for characterizing cumulative anticholinergic exposure over time may not be well suited for use across all US data sources. In this review, the properties of existing anticholinergic ...
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(Annals Of Surgery, 2023-01-28)Objective:The aim of this review was to review the ethical and multidisciplinary clinical challenges facing trauma surgeons when resuscitating patients presenting with penetrating brain injury (PBI) and multicavitary trauma. ...
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(Medical Image Analysis, 2022-12-14)We propose an endoscopic image mosaicking algorithm that is robust to light conditioning changes, specular reflections, and feature-less scenes. These conditions are especially common in minimally invasive surgery where ...
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(Healthcare, 2022-11-12)The COVID-19 pandemic is the most devastating public health crisis in at least a century and has affected the lives of billions of people worldwide in unprecedented ways. Compared to pandemics of this scale in the past, ...
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(American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2020-01-15)Purpose High-quality medication reconciliation reduces medication discrepancies, but smaller hospitals serving rural patients may have difficulty implementing this because of limited resources. We sought to adapt and ...
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(Annals of Oncology, 2020-02)Background: The addition of atezolizumab to carboplatin and etoposide (CP/ET) significantly improved progression-free and overall survival for patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) in the IMpower133 ...
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(BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2019-02)Introduction Nintedanib slows disease progression in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) by reducing the rate of decline in forced vital capacity, with an adverse event profile that is manageable for most ...
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(BMC Pharmacology & Toxicology, 2020-01-06)Background 2-Hydroxybenzylamine (2-HOBA) is a selective dicarbonyl electrophile scavenger being developed as a nutritional supplement to help protect against the development of conditions associated with dicarbonyl ...
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(BMC Medical Genetics, 2020-02-14)Background Epigenetics could facilitate greater understanding of disparities in the emergence of childhood obesity. While blood is a common tissue used in human epigenetic studies, saliva is a promising tissue. Our prior ...
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(Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology, 2019-05-20)OBJECTIVES: Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an allergen-mediated inflammatory disease affecting the esophagus. Although microbial communities may affect the host immune responses, little is known about the role of the ...
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(Molecular Metabolism, 2023-01-13)Objective: Oxidative stress contributes to the development of insulin resistance (IR) and atherosclerosis. Peroxidation of lipids produces reactive dicarbonyls such as Isolevuglandins (IsoLG) and malondialdehyde (MDA) that ...
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(Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2020-01-24)Since Tulving proposed a distinction in memory between semantic and episodic memory, considerable effort has been directed towards understanding their similar and unique features. Of particular interest has been the extent ...
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(JOURNAL OF THE PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY, 2019-06)Background. Staphylococcus aureus is among the most commonly identified causes of invasive bacterial infection in children; however, reliable results from cultures of sterile-site samples often cannot be obtained, which ...
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(Frontiers in Neurlogy, 2020-02-04)A growing body of literature has examined sex differences in a variety of outcomes from moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), including outcomes for social functioning. Social functioning is an area in which adults ...