Utilizing data from the Vitamin C, Thiamine, and Steroids in Sepsis (VICTAS) Trial, this hub model was developed to limit seventeen Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System (RAAS) components as three entrance and four exits, to facilitate the calculation of a model as one egress unknown, the angiotensin type 1 (AT1) receptor. Following previous evidence relating renin levels to mortality, this study found controls were more like sepsis patients with levels < renin quartile 1 (Q1) for calculated AT1, while more like sepsis patients with renin levels > quartile 3 (Q4) for measured aldosterone levels. Additionally differential discrete correlate summation (DCS) analysis indicates AT1, aldosterone and renin as major hub nodes in this independent DCS model of metabolic data inputs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeurotoxicity investigations of inhaled organophosphorus pesticide (OP), ethyl-parathion (EP), were conducted in Sprague Dawley rats comparing exposures to EP volatilized at 0, 1, 10, and 20mg/m versus EP incorporated into soil dust (5mg/m) at 0, 0.0095, 0.09, and 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSepsis and septic shock are global healthcare problems associated with high mortality rates. Activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) is an early event in sepsis and elevated renin may be predictive of worse outcomes. In a subset of sepsis patients enrolled in the Vitamin C, Thiamine, and Steroids in Sepsis (VICTAS) trial, active renin (median value > 189 pg/mL or 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Complex neurodevelopmental disorders involve motor as well as cognitive dysfunction and these impairments are associated with both cerebral and cerebellar maturity. A network of connections between these two brain regions is proposed to underlie neurodevelopmental impairments. The cerebellar gray matter has a protracted developmental timeline compared to the cerebral cortex, however, making the association of these relay pathways unclear for neurodevelopmental disabilities.
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