Publications by authors named "J Rousseau Trepanier"
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- The study aimed to assess how deep neuromuscular blockade (NMB) affects pain and opioid use during laparoscopic colorectal surgery compared to moderate NMB.
- 100 patients were randomly divided into deep and moderate NMB groups, with the deep group requiring significantly less remifentanil (an opioid) during surgery.
- Results indicated that deep NMB improved surgical conditions, evidenced by a better Leiden Surgical Rating Scale and lower intra-abdominal pressure, while postoperative pain and analgesic use were similar to the moderate group.
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- ERK3/MAPK6 activates MK5, influencing cardiac fibroblast function and hypertrophy in male mice.
- Male MK5 haplo-deficient mice show reduced cardiac hypertrophy and decreased Col1a1 mRNA when faced with increased cardiac afterload.
- The study reveals that reduced ERK3 leads to lower heart mass and impacts fibroblast behavior, highlighting ERK3's crucial role in cardiac fibroblast biology.
The terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF) and Energetic Thunderstorm Rooftop Array (TETRA-II) detected 22 X-ray/gamma-ray flash events associated with lightning between October 2015 and March 2019 across three ground-based detector locations in subtropical and tropical climates in Louisiana, Puerto Rico, and Panama. Each detector array consists of a set of bismuth germanate scintillators that record X-ray and gamma-ray bursts over the energy range 50 keV-6 MeV (million electron volts). TETRA-II events have characteristics similar to both X-ray bursts associated with lightning leaders and TGFs: sub-millisecond duration, photons up to MeV energies, and association with nearby lightning (typically within 3 km).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWaste workers are exposed to bioaerosols when handling, lifting and dumping garbage. Bioaerosol exposure has been linked to health problems such as asthma, airway irritant symptoms, infectious, gastrointestinal and skin diseases, and cancer. Our objective was to characterize the exposure of urban collectors and drivers to inhalable bioaerosols and to measured the cytotoxic effect of air samples in order to evaluate their health risk.
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