Recent Publications by Shriners Burns Institute: |
Pretreatment with the Gram-positive bacterial cell wall molecule peptidoglycan improves bacterial clearance and decreases inflammation and mortality in mice challenged with Staphylococcus aureus.
OBJECTIVE:: To determine whether tolerance and enhancement of innate... | 1st October, 2008
| From the Department of Anesthesiology (EDM, GF, ERS) and Shriners Burns
| Crit Care Med. 2008 Sep 26.
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Intracellular cytokines.
The principal technique described in this unit was developed for detecting... | 5th September, 2008
| University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Shriners Burns Institute,
| Curr Protoc Cytom. 2004 May;Chapter 9:Unit 9.9.
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Pretreatment with the Gram-positive bacterial cell wall molecule peptidoglycan improves bacterial clearance and decreases inflammation and mortality in mice challenged with Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
The objective of this study was to determine if inflammatory tolerance and... | 6th August, 2008
| Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301
| Microbes Infect. 2008 Jul 17.
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Proton NMR spectroscopy shows lipids accumulate in skeletal muscle in response to burn trauma-induced apoptosis.
Burn trauma triggers hypermetabolism and muscle wasting via increased... | 7th March, 2006
| Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Shriners Burns
| FASEB J. 2005 Sep;19(11):1431-40.
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Noninvasive magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging biomarkers to predict the clinical grade of pediatric brain tumors.
The diagnosis and therapy of childhood brain tumors, most of which are low... | 1st October, 2005
| Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Surgical Laboratory, Department of Surgery,
| Clin Cancer Res. 2004 Dec 15;10(24):8220-8.
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Analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 4-hydroxy-2-alkylquinolines (HAQs) reveals a role for 4-hydroxy-2-heptylquinoline in cell-to-cell communication.
Bacterial communities use "quorum sensing" (QS) to coordinate their... | 10th March, 2004
| Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Shriners Burns
| Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Feb 3;101(5):1339-44. Epub 2004 Jan 22.
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Opposite effects of prostacyclin on hepatic blood flow and oxygen consumption after burn and sepsis.
BACKGROUND: Burn and sepsis are associated with hepatic ischemia and... | 24th January, 2004
| Shriners Burns Institute and the University of Texas Medical Branch,
| Ann Surg. 2004 Jan;239(1):67-74.
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The Drosophila melanogaster toll pathway participates in resistance to infection by the gram-negative human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a gram-negative pathogen that infects... | 23rd July, 2003
| Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General
| Infect Immun. 2003 Jul;71(7):4059-66.
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Multiparametric MR assessment of pediatric brain tumors.
MR assessment of pediatric brain tumors has expanded to include... | 9th April, 2003
| NMR Surgical Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Burns
| Neuroradiology. 2003 Jan;45(1):1-10. Epub 2002 Nov 20.
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Effects of interleukin-1alpha administration on intestinal ischemia and reperfusion injury, mucosal permeability, and bacterial translocation in burn and sepsis.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of interleukin-1alpha (IL-1alpha) on the... | 17th January, 2003
| Shriners Burns
| Ann Surg. 2003 Jan;237(1):101-9.
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