Publications by authors named "D L Wendell"
Preclinical disease models are important for the advancement of therapeutics towards human clinical trials. One of the difficult tasks of developing a well-characterized model is having a reliable modality with which to trend the progression of disease. Acute rejection is one of the most devastating complications that can occur following organ transplantation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the United States, modelling studies suggest a high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in incarcerated populations. However, limited HCV testing has been conducted in prisons. Through the Louisiana Hepatitis C Elimination Plan, persons incarcerated in the eight state prisons were offered HCV testing from 20 September 2019 to 14 July 2022, and facility entry/exit HCV testing was introduced.
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- The PARACOR-19 trial investigated whether the medication sacubitril/valsartan could improve heart health markers in patients who had recently recovered from COVID-19.
- In this study involving 42 participants, the drug did not significantly affect the primary cardiac injury markers, high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T and soluble ST2, compared to a placebo.
- However, exploratory results showed that sacubitril/valsartan led to notable reductions in other heart-related biomarkers, indicating it might help in reducing cardiac stress and improving collagen turnover.
After drawing a distinction between "class" and "status," an early but short-lived sociological literature on status politics is reviewed. That approach has lost favor, but moral foundations theory (MFT) offers a new opportunity to link morality policy to status politics. While any of the five moral foundations (care, fairness, loyalty, authority, sanctity) can provoke conflict over status, most often sanctity is the cause of status politics because it engages the emotion of disgust.
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