Publications by authors named "A H Schuurman"

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  • Airway epithelial cells are key defenders against respiratory infections, and flagellin, a component of some pathogens, could enhance immune responses.
  • This study used single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze how flagellin affects different types of primary human bronchial epithelial cells, revealing increased inflammatory activity in certain cell clusters.
  • The findings indicated that inflammatory secretory cells shift their metabolism to aerobic glycolysis, while inflammatory basal cells showed enhanced oxidative phosphorylation, highlighting the diverse responses of airway cells to flagellin exposure.
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 We observed several cases of heterotopic bone formation after a 1,2 intercompartmental supraretinacular artery (1,2 ICSRA) distal radius vascularized bone graft (VBG) for the treatment of scaphoid nonunion. This adverse event seems underreported. Knowledge about factors associated with the formation of heterotopic bone after VBGs might help reduce this adverse event.

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Objectives: Lymphopenia at hospital admission occurs in over one-third of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), yet its clinical relevance and pathophysiological implications remain underexplored. We evaluated outcomes and immune features of patients with lymphopenic CAP (L-CAP), a previously described immunophenotype characterized by admission lymphocyte count <0.724 × 10 cells/L.

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The lipidome of immune cells during infection has remained unexplored, although evidence of the importance of lipids in the context of immunity is mounting. In this study, we performed untargeted lipidomic analysis of blood monocytes and neutrophils from patients hospitalized for pneumonia and age- and sex-matched noninfectious control volunteers. We annotated 521 and 706 lipids in monocytes and neutrophils, respectively, which were normalized to an extensive set of internal standards per lipid class.

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The plasma lipidome has the potential to reflect many facets of the host status during severe infection. Previous work is limited to specific lipid groups or was focused on lipids as prognosticators. To map the plasma lipidome during sepsis due to community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and determine the disease specificity and associations with clinical features.

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