Journal ArticleJ Vis Exp · June 6, 2025
The number of advanced heart failure patients who can receive a heart transplant is limited by a shortage of suitable organ donors. In efforts to expand the donor pool, alternative donation and procurement methods have been developed, including heart trans ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol · April 1, 2024
Chlorine gas (Cl2) has been repeatedly used as a chemical weapon, first in World War I and most recently in Syria. Life-threatening Cl2 exposures frequently occur in domestic and occupational environments, and in transportation accidents. Modeling the huma ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pharmacol Exp Ther · January 17, 2024
Deployment of the tear gas agent 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile (CS) for riot control has significantly increased in recent years. The effects of CS have been believed to be transient and benign. However, CS induces severe pain, blepharospasm, lachrymation, a ...
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Journal ArticleHeart Fail Clin · January 2024
Elevated left atrial pressure during exercise is a hallmark of heart failure (HF) and is associated with adverse left atrial remodeling and poor outcomes. To decompress the pressure-overloaded left atrium in patients with HF, several device-based approache ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in Medicine · January 1, 2024
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic surge in the hospitalization of critically ill patients and the global demand for mechanical ventilators, alternative strategies for device sharing were explored. We developed and assessed the performance of a syste ...
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ConferenceAnnu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · July 2022
There is growing research showing the importance of measuring esophageal pressure as a surrogate for pleural pressure for patients on mechanical ventilators. The most common measurement method uses a balloon catheter, whose accuracy can vary based on patie ...
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Journal ArticleSTAR Protoc · June 17, 2022
Frequent monitoring of laboratory animals is critical for ensuring animal welfare and experimental data collection. To minimize the adverse and confounding effects caused by current monitoring protocols and human presence, we developed a low-cost, non-inva ...
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Journal ArticleToxicol Mech Methods · May 2021
Chlorine gas is one of the highly produced chemicals in the USA and around the world. Chlorine gas has several uses in water purification, sanitation, and industrial applications; however, it is a toxic inhalation hazard agent. Inhalation of chlorine gas, ...
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Journal ArticleAnn N Y Acad Sci · November 2020
The lung is highly sensitive to chemical injuries caused by exposure to threat agents in industrial or transportation accidents, occupational exposures, or deliberate use as weapons of mass destruction (WMD). There are no antidotes for the majority of the ...
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Journal ArticleToxicol Lett · September 1, 2018
The skin is highly sensitive to the chemical warfare agent in mustard gas, sulfur mustard (SM) that initiates a delayed injury response characterized by erythema, inflammation and severe vesication (blistering). Although SM poses a continuing threat, used ...
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Journal ArticleBr J Pharmacol · May 2017
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Eucalyptol (1,8-cineol), the major ingredient in the essential oil of eucalyptus leaves and other medicinal plants, has long been known for its anti-inflammatory properties. Eucalyptol interacts with the TRP cation channels among ot ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Drug Metab Pharmacokinet · December 2016
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Infection and inflammation are known to cause wide variability in disposition of drugs through modulation of drug transporters. However, the effects of inhibition of multidrug resistance protein 4 (MRP4) on pharmacokinetics and p ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · November 22, 2016
Poison ivy-induced allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) is the most common environmental allergic condition in the United States. Case numbers of poison ivy ACD are increasing due to growing biomass and geographical expansion of poison ivy and increasing cont ...
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Journal ArticleAnn N Y Acad Sci · August 2016
Deployments of tear gas and pepper spray have rapidly increased worldwide. Large amounts of tear gas have been used in densely populated cities, including Cairo, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, Manama (Bahrain), and Hong Kong. In the United States, tear gas was ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vet Pharmacol Ther · June 2016
Cisplatin is a platinum-containing cytotoxic drug indicated for the treatment of solid tumors in veterinary and human patients. Several of the algorithms used to standardize the doses of cytotoxic drugs utilize allometry, or the nonproportional relationshi ...
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Journal ArticleVet Comp Oncol · June 2016
Vinblastine is a vinca alkaloid used either as a single agent or in combination therapy for the treatment of canine mast cell tumours and lymphomas. The objective of this study was to determine which isoform of cytochrome P450 enzyme is responsible for the ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2016
Oxidation products of the naturally occurring phospholipid 1-palmitoyl-2-arachidonoyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphatidylcholine (PAPC), which are known as OxPAPC, accumulate in atherosclerotic lesions and at other sites of inflammation in conditions such as septic ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Anim Hosp Assoc · 2016
Glucosamine (GS) is commonly administered as a nutritional supplement to support joint function. Although many supplements are available, the effect of formulation on oral absorption in dogs is unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine the relati ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol · July 15, 2014
The treatment of acute lung injury caused by exposure to reactive chemicals remains challenging because of the lack of mechanism-based therapeutic approaches. Recent studies have shown that transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4), an ion channel e ...
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Journal ArticleJ Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci · January 15, 2013
A highly sensitive and specific liquid chromatography-atmospheric pressure chemical ionization-mass spectrometry (LC/APCI-MS/MS) method has been developed and validated for simultaneous quantification of vinblastine and its metabolite, desacetylvinblastine ...
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