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List of works by Michaela A West

A genomic storm in critically injured humans

scientific article published on 21 November 2011

Academic practice groups: strategy for survival

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Acute uncomplicated appendicitis: case time of day influences hospital length of stay.

scientific article published in February 2009

Assessment of the relationship between timing of fixation of the fracture and secondary brain injury in patients with multiple trauma.

scientific article published in October 1998

Autoregulation of hepatic macrophage activation in sepsis

scientific article published on 01 April 1993

Benchmarking outcomes in the critically injured trauma patient and the effect of implementing standard operating procedures.

scientific article published in May 2012

Civilian rectal trauma: a changing perspective

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

Current treatment recommendations for topical burn therapy.

scientific article published on September 1990

Cytokines and the pathogenesis of nosocomial pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 October 2001

Debunking the survival bias myth: characterization of mortality during the initial 24 hours for patients requiring massive transfusion.

scientific article published in August 2012

Defective lipopolysaccharide-dependent ERK 1/2 activation in endotoxin tolerant murine macrophages is reversed by direct protein kinase C stimulation

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Does Isolation of Enterococcus Affect Outcomes in Intra-Abdominal Infections?

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Does splenectomy protect against immune-mediated complications in blunt trauma patients?

scientific article published on 03 April 2009

Early release of soluble receptor for advanced glycation endproducts after severe trauma in humans.

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Early use of vasopressors after injury: caution before constriction.

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Effect of interleukin 2 on Kupffer cell activation. Interleukin 2 primes and activates Kupffer cells to suppress hepatocyte protein synthesis in vitro

scientific article published on 01 November 1988

Efficacy of radioprotective agents in preventing small and large bowel radiation injury

scientific article published on 01 July 1995

Endotoxin modulation of hepatocyte secretory and cellular protein synthesis is mediated by Kupffer cells

scientific article published on 01 November 1988

Endotoxin pretreatment of human monocytes alters subsequent endotoxin-triggered release of inflammatory mediators.

scientific article published on April 1995

Endotoxin tolerance from lipopolysaccharide pretreatment induces nuclear factor-kappaB alterations not present in C3H/HeJ mice

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Endotoxin tolerance in sepsis: concentration-dependent augmentation or inhibition of LPS-stimulated macrophage TNF secretion by LPS pretreatment.

scientific article published in October 2008

Endotoxin tolerance: A review

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Ensuring Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Academic Surgery: An American Surgical Association White Paper

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Evaluation and management of peripheral vascular injury. Part 1. Western Trauma Association/critical decisions in trauma.

scientific article published in June 2011

Evaluation of the abdomen in the critically ill patient: opening the black box.

scientific article published on August 2006

Even ephemeral endotoxin exposure establishes endotoxin tolerance.

scientific article published in April 2008

Evidence for a CD14- and serum-independent pathway in the induction of endotoxin-tolerance in human monocytes and THP-1 monocytic cells

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Evidence that rat Kupffer cells stimulate and inhibit hepatocyte protein synthesis in vitro by different mechanisms.

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Further characterization of Kupffer cell/macrophage-mediated alterations in hepatocyte protein synthesis

scientific article published on 01 August 1986

Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases

scientific article (publication date: 26 February 2013)

Genomic survey of gene expression diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana.

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Goal-directed resuscitation in the prehospital setting: a propensity-adjusted analysis.

scientific article published on May 2013

Governors' Committee on Surgical Infections and Environmental Risks: an update.

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Hepatocyte function in sepsis: Kupffer cells mediate a biphasic protein synthesis response in hepatocytes after exposure to endotoxin or killed Escherichia coli

scientific article published on 01 September 1985

Impaired ex vivo lipopolysaccharide-stimulated whole blood tumor necrosis factor production may identify "septic" intensive care unit patients

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Impaired mitogen-activated protein kinase activation and altered cytokine secretion in endotoxin-tolerant human monocytes

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

In vitro macrophage endotoxin tolerance: defective in vitro macrophage map kinase signal transduction after LPS pretreatment is not present in macrophages from C3H/HeJ endotoxin resistant mice.

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In vivo endotoxin tolerance: impaired LPS-stimulated TNF release of monocytes from patients with sepsis, but not SIRS

scientific article published on 01 April 1997

Independent signal transduction pathways for IL-1 and TNF in LPS-tolerant macrophages

scientific article published on 01 June 1995

Inflammation and the host response to injury, a large-scale collaborative project: Patient-oriented research core-standard operating procedures for clinical care. IV. Guidelines for transfusion in the trauma patient

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Inflammation and the host response to injury, a large-scale collaborative project: patient-oriented research core-standard operating procedures for clinical care: VI. Blood glucose control in the critically ill trauma patient.

scientific article published in September 2007

Inhibitory kappaBalpha control of nuclear factor-kappaB is dysregulated in endotoxin tolerant macrophages

scientific article published on 01 April 1999

Intestinal gram-negative bacterial overgrowth in vivo augments the in vitro response of Kupffer cells to endotoxin.

scientific article published on October 1988

Intestinal obstruction from furniture cushion foam bezoar

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Kinetics of decreased LPS-stimulated cytokine release by macrophages exposed to CO2

scientific article published on 01 June 1996

LPS pretreatment reprograms macrophage LPS-stimulated TNF and IL-1 release without protein tyrosine kinase activation

scientific article published on 01 January 1997

Lipopolysaccharide pretreatment produces macrophage endotoxin tolerance via a serum-independent pathway

scientific article published on 01 October 1998

Lower levels of whole blood LPS-stimulated cytokine release are associated with poorer clinical outcomes in surgical ICU patients.

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Macrophage endotoxin tolerance. Tumor necrosis factor and interleukin-1 regulation by lipopolysaccharide pretreatment

scientific article published on 01 December 1994

Macrophage endotoxin tolerance: effect of TNF or endotoxin pretreatment

scientific article published on 01 July 1994

Macrophage-mediated modulation of hepatic function in multiple-system failure.

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Macrophage-mediated modulation of hepatocyte protein synthesis. Effect of dexamethasone

scientific article published on 01 October 1986

Male gender is associated with excessive IL-6 expression following severe injury

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

Mechanism of decreased in vitro murine macrophage cytokine release after exposure to carbon dioxide: relevance to laparoscopic surgery.

scientific article published on August 1997

Mechanisms of reprogrammed macrophage endotoxin signal transduction after lipopolysaccharide pretreatment

scientific article published on 01 August 1995

Patients with Risk Factors for Complications Do Not Require Longer Antimicrobial Therapy for Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infection

scientific article published on September 2016

Pre-exposure to hypoxia or septic stimuli differentially regulates endotoxin release of tumor necrosis factor, interleukin-6, interleukin-1, prostaglandin E2, nitric oxide, and superoxide by macrophages.

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Pretrauma center red blood cell transfusion is associated with reduced mortality and coagulopathy in severely injured patients with blunt trauma.

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Prostaglandin E2 mediates subset-specific effects on the functional responses of allosensitized T lymphocyte clones

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

Protein kinase C regulates macrophage tumor necrosis factor secretion: direct protein kinase C activation restores tumor necrosis factor production in endotoxin tolerance.

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Recent developments in clinical management of surgical sepsis.

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Regulation of Kupffer cell-mediated alterations in hepatocyte protein synthesis in vitro

scientific article published on 01 November 1987

Relative hyperoxia augments lipopolysaccharide-stimulated cytokine secretion by murine macrophages.

scientific article published on May 2003

Remote inflammatory and metabolic impact of acute injury

scientific article published in June 2014

Reprogrammed macrophage tumor necrosis factor and interleukin-1 release with inflammatory pretreatment: differential regulation by endotoxin and zymosan.

scientific article published on September 1995

Role of calcium in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated tumor necrosis factor and interleukin-1 signal transduction in naive and endotoxin-tolerant murine macrophages

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

Shifting surgical paradigms for cholecystectomy in mild gallstone pancreatitis: comment on "early laparoscopic cholecystectomy for mild gallstone pancreatitis".

scientific article published in November 2012

Splenectomy alters Kupffer cell response to endotoxin.

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Stapled versus hand sewn anastomoses in patients with small bowel injury: a changing perspective

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

The changing pattern and implications of multiple organ failure after blunt injury with hemorrhagic shock.

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The importance of bactericidal drugs: future directions in infectious disease.

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The practice of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in the major trauma patient

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

The why and how our trauma patients die: A prospective Multicenter Western Trauma Association study

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Time to stroke: A Western Trauma Association multicenter study of blunt cerebrovascular injuries

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Trauma

scientific article published on 01 December 2011

Trauma clip-art: early experience with an improved radiopaque marker system for delineating the path of penetrating injuries

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Trauma in cirrhotics: survival and hospital sequelae in patients requiring abdominal exploration

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Trial of short-course antimicrobial therapy for intraabdominal infection.

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Western Trauma Association (WTA) critical decisions in trauma: management of adult blunt splenic trauma.

scientific article published in November 2008

Western Trauma Association critical decisions in trauma: screening for and treatment of blunt cerebrovascular injuries.

scientific article published on December 2009

Western Trauma Association/critical decisions in trauma: operative management of adult blunt hepatic trauma.

scientific article published on July 2011

What's new in shock? May 2014.

scientific article published in May 2014

Wound management in perforated appendicitis

scientific article published on 01 May 1999