Publications by authors named "S Laughlin"

Aim: To evaluate the ability of blood-biomarkers, clinical examination, electrophysiology, or neuroimaging, assessed within 14 days from return of circulation to predict good neurological outcome in children following out- or in-hospital cardiac arrest.

Methods: Medline, EMBASE and Cochrane Trials databases were searched (2010-2023). Sensitivity and false positive rates (FPR) for good neurological outcome (defined as either 'no, mild, moderate disability or minimal change from baseline') in paediatric survivors were calculated for each predictor.

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Elucidating how adaptive and maladaptive changes to the structural connectivity of brain networks influences neural synchrony, and how this structure-function coupling impacts cognition is an important question in human neuroscience. This study assesses these links in the default mode and executive control networks during resting state, a visual-motor task, and through computational modeling in the developing brain and in acquired brain injuries. Pediatric brain tumor survivors were used as an injury model as they are known to exhibit cognitive deficits, structural connectivity compromise, and perturbations in neural communication.

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  • Over the past 20 years, click chemistry and transformations have advanced both chemical and biological sciences, with the inverse electron demand Diels-Alder reaction (IEDDA) being a key reaction in this area.
  • This study focuses on the reaction of -bicyclo[6.1.0]nonyne (-BCN) with various 2-pyran derivatives, revealing that 2-thiopyran-2-one reacts significantly faster than its counterparts due to lower distortion energy.
  • The findings were supported by density functional theory (DFT) calculations and experimental rate constants, which helped validate the computational results and provided insights into the reactivity of these compounds.
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Bioorthogonal chemistry has become a mainstay in chemical biology and is making inroads in the clinic with recent advances in protein targeting and drug release. Since the field's beginning, a major focus has been on designing bioorthogonal reagents with good selectivity, reactivity, and stability in complex biological environments. More recently, chemists have imbued reagents with new functionalities like click-and-release or light/enzyme-controllable reactivity.

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Glioneuronal tumors (GNTs) are an expanding group of primary CNS neoplasms, commonly affecting children, adolescents and young adults. Most GNTs are relatively indolent, low-grade, WHO grade I lesions. In the pediatric age group, GNTs have their epicenter in the cerebral cortex and present with seizures.

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