Introduction: The physiologic derangements imposed by cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) can result in complications such as postoperative delirium. We aim to validate a rodent survival model of CPB demonstrating a systemic inflammatory response and hypothesize that this contributes to post-CPB delirium.
Methods: Adult Sprague-Dawley rats were randomized to three groups: 1) Sham peripheral surgical cannulation, 2) CPB followed by acute phase harvest, or 3) CPB followed by 24-h survival.
J Perinatol
October 2024
Perceptual judgements of the environment emerge from the concerted activity of neural populations in decision-making areas downstream of sensory cortex [1, 2, 3]. When the sensory input is ambiguous, perceptual judgements can be biased by prior expectations shaped by environmental regularities [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10,11]. These effects are examples of Bayesian inference, a reasoning method in which prior knowledge is leveraged to optimize uncertain decisions [12, 13].
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