Head Trauma

Managing Drug Interactions in Cancer Therapy: A Guide for the Advanced Practitioner.

Mrs. P is a 30-year-old woman who presented to our bone marrow transplant program with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). She received a haploidentical allogeneic stem cell transplant with a conditioning regimen consisting of busulfan and cyclophosphamide. This treatment was followed by post-transplant immunosuppression for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) with cyclophosphamide, mycophenolate mofetil...

Comparison of hydrocortisone and prednisone in the glucocorticoid replacement therapy post-adrenalectomy of Cushing's Syndrome.

Cushing's syndrome requires glucocorticoid replacement following adrenalectomy. Based on a simplified glucocorticoid therapy scheme and the peri-operative observation, we investigated its efficacy and safety up to 6 months post-adrenalectomy in this cohort study. We found the adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) levels were normal post-adrenalectomy, and sufficient to stimulate the recovery of the d...

Memristive neural network for on-line learning and tracking with brain-inspired spike timing dependent plasticity.

Brain-inspired computation can revolutionize information technology by introducing machines capable of recognizing patterns (images, speech, video) an...

A Strategy for Sperm Cryopreservation of Atlantic Salmon, , for Remote Commercial-scale High-throughput Processing.

Sperm cryopreservation is an essential tool for long-term storage of genetic resources for aquaculture fishes. The goal of this study was to develop a...

Utilization of machine learning for prediction of post-traumatic stress: a re-examination of cortisol in the prediction and pathways to non-remitting PTSD.

To date, studies of biological risk factors have revealed inconsistent relationships with subsequent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The incons...

A First Step towards a Clinical Decision Support System for Post-traumatic Stress Disorders.

PTSD is distressful and debilitating, following a non-remitting course in about 10% to 20% of trauma survivors. Numerous risk indicators of PTSD have ...

Asymptomatic Epstein-Barr Virus Shedding in the Urine of Kidney Transplant Recipients: Case Reports and Review of the Literature.

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with a wide range of malignancies and complications like post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD). T...

Moderate rest intervals are superior to short intervals for improving PAI-1 following exhaustive exercise in recreational weightlifters.

This study investigated the influence of short and moderate recovery intervals on lipid profiles and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) followi...

Genome-Wide Transcriptional and Post-transcriptional Regulation of Innate Immune and Defense Responses of Bovine Mammary Gland to .

() is problematic for lactating mammals and public health. Understanding of mechanisms by which the hosts respond to severe invasion of remains elus...

An inactivated influenza D virus vaccine partially protects cattle from respiratory disease caused by homologous challenge.

Originally isolated from swine, the proposed influenza D virus has since been shown to be common in cattle. Inoculation of IDV to naïve calves resulte...

Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation of young post-pubertal dairy bulls alters the fatty acid composition of seminal plasma and spermatozoa but has no effect on semen volume or sperm quality.

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of dietary supplementation with rumen protected n-6 or n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) on the ...

Repetitive head impact exposure and later-life plasma total tau in former National Football League players.

INTRODUCTION: Blood protein analysis of total tau (t-tau) may be a practical screening biomarker for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurode...

The impact of post-stroke complications on in-hospital mortality depends on stroke severity.

INTRODUCTION: Controversies remain on whether post-stroke complications represent an independent predictor of poor outcome or just a reflection of str...

Detection of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury by Machine Learning Classification Using Resting State Functional Network Connectivity and Fractional Anisotropy.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) may adversely affect a person's thinking, memory, personality, and behavior. While mild TBI (mTBI) diagnosis is challengi...

Progesterone supplementation in the early luteal phase after artificial insemination improves conception rates in high-producing dairy cows.

This study examines the possible effects on the reproductive performance of high-producing dairy cows of progesterone (P4) given in the early luteal p...

Efficient multi-scale 3D CNN with fully connected CRF for accurate brain lesion segmentation.

We propose a dual pathway, 11-layers deep, three-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network for the challenging task of brain lesion segmentation. The d...

A LASSO Method to Identify Protein Signature Predicting Post-transplant Renal Graft Survival.

Identifying novel biomarkers to predict renal graft survival is important in post-transplant clinical practice. Serum creatinine, currently the most p...

A machine learning approach to identify functional biomarkers in human prefrontal cortex for individuals with traumatic brain injury using functional near-infrared spectroscopy.

BACKGROUND: We have explored the potential prefrontal hemodynamic biomarkers to characterize subjects with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) by employing t...

Identifying Important Attributes for Prognostic Prediction in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients. A Hybrid Method of Decision Tree and Neural Network.

BACKGROUND: Generally, traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients do not have a stable condition, particularly after the first week of TBI. Hence, indicati...

A single robotic session that guides or increases movement error in survivors post-chronic stroke: which intervention is best to boost the learning of a timing task?

PURPOSE: Timing deficits can have a negative impact on the lives of survivors post-chronic stroke. Studies evaluating ways to improve timing post stro...