Publications by authors named "R C Brower"
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- Heart transplant patients with donor-specific antibodies (DSAs) face a higher risk of rejection, but some do not show antibody-mediated rejection despite having graft dysfunction.
- A study involved 216 participants undergoing serial evaluations like endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) and echocardiograms to understand the relationship between DSAs, rejection types, and long-term outcomes.
- Results indicated that both antibody-mediated rejection (pAMR+) and DSA-related left ventricle dysfunction significantly correlated with increased mortality and prolonged heart dysfunction, particularly if they occurred within the first six months after transplant.
While continued cannabis use and misuse in individuals with schizophrenia is associated with a variety of negative outcomes, individuals with a history of use tend to show higher cognitive performance compared to non-users. While this is replicated in the literature, few studies have used task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to evaluate whether the brain networks underpinning these cognitive features are similarly impacted. Forty-eight first-episode individuals with schizophrenia (FES) with a history of cannabis use (FES + CAN), 28 FES individuals with no history of cannabis use (FES-CAN), and 59 controls (CON) performed the AX-Continuous Performance Task during fMRI.
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- * The development of electrified processes utilizing captured CO aims to eliminate traditional methods of gas compression and storage, addressing both environmental and economic concerns.
- * This review examines the tuning of ILs and DESs for reactive capture and conversion, focusing on their mechanisms for CO chemisorption and electroreduction, as well as their bulk and interfacial properties related to the process.
Importance: Acetaminophen (paracetamol) has many pharmacological effects that might be beneficial in sepsis, including inhibition of cell-free hemoglobin-induced oxidation of lipids and other substrates.
Objective: To determine whether acetaminophen increases days alive and free of organ dysfunction in sepsis compared with placebo.
Design, Setting, And Participants: Phase 2b randomized, double-blind, clinical trial conducted from October 2021 to April 2023 with 90-day follow-up.
Ionic liquids (ILs) are considered functional electrolytes for the electrocatalytic reduction of CO (ECOR) due to their role in the double-layer structure formation and increased CO availability at the electrode surface, which reduces the voltage requirement. However, not all ILs are the same, considering the purity and degree of the functionality of the IL. Further, there are critical experimental factors that impact the evaluation of ILs for ECOR including the reference electrode, working electrode construction, cosolvent selection, cell geometry, and whether the electrochemical cell is a single compartment or a divided cell.
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