Publications by authors named "E Barrios"

Article Synopsis
  • Sepsis leads to systemic immune issues and organ failure, often resulting in severe brain disability, with young females showing better recovery than males.
  • Using a mouse model, researchers found that after experiencing sepsis, both male and female mice showed weight regain and reduced gut microbiome diversity, but males displayed more significant immune changes and brain inflammation.
  • fMRI analysis highlighted that while both sexes experienced similar changes in certain brain areas, male mice had altered connectivity patterns suggesting a delayed recovery process compared to females, indicating a complex, sex-dependent response to sepsis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Introduction: Despite continued improvement in post-sepsis survival, long term morbidity and mortality remain high. Chronic critical illness (CCI), defined as persistent inflammation and organ injury requiring prolonged intensive care, is a harbinger of poor long-term outcomes in sepsis survivors. Current dogma states that sepsis survivors are immunosuppressed, particularly in CCI.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Prenatal Zika virus (ZIKV) infection leads to microcephaly and adverse neurodevelopment. The effects of postnatal ZIKV infection on the developing brain are unknown. We assessed the neurodevelopmental outcomes of children exposed postnatally during the ZIKV epidemic.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Introduction: Sepsis is a complex clinical syndrome characterized by a heterogenous host immune response. Historically, static protein and transcriptomic metrics have been employed to describe the underlying biology. Here, we tested the hypothesis that functional TNF expression as well as an immunologic endotype based on both IFNγ and TNF expression could be used to model clinical outcomes in sepsis patients.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF