[HTML][HTML] Infectious disease-associated encephalopathies

MC Barbosa-Silva, MN Lima, D Battaglini, C Robba… - Critical Care, 2021 - Springer
Infectious diseases may affect brain function and cause encephalopathy even when the
pathogen does not directly infect the central nervous system, known as infectious disease …

Targeting the blood-brain barrier to prevent sepsis-associated cognitive impairment

DC Nwafor, AL Brichacek… - Journal of central …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory disease resulting from an infection. This disorder affects
750 000 people annually in the United States and has a 62% rehospitalization rate. Septic …

[HTML][HTML] Simvastatin downregulates the SARS-CoV-2-induced inflammatory response and impairs viral infection through disruption of lipid rafts

L Teixeira, JR Temerozo, FS Pereira-Dutra… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is currently a worldwide emergency caused by
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In observational clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Cerebral malaria induced by plasmodium falciparum: clinical features, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment

X Song, W Wei, W Cheng, H Zhu, W Wang… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cerebral malaria (CM) caused by Plasmodium falciparum is a fatal neurological
complication of malaria, resulting in coma and death, and even survivors may suffer long …

[HTML][HTML] Zika virus infects, activates, and crosses brain microvascular endothelial cells, without barrier disruption

MP Papa, LM Meuren, SVA Coelho… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Zika virus (ZIKV) has been associated to central nervous system (CNS) harm, and virus was
detected in the brain and cerebrospinal fluids of microcephaly and meningoencephalitis …

[HTML][HTML] Treating the host response to emerging virus diseases: lessons learned from sepsis, pneumonia, influenza and Ebola

DS Fedson - Annals of translational medicine, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There is an ongoing threat of epidemic or pandemic diseases that could be caused by
influenza, Ebola or other emerging viruses. It will be difficult and costly to develop new drugs …

Treating influenza with statins and other immunomodulatory agents

DS Fedson - Antiviral research, 2013 - Elsevier
Statins not only reduce levels of LDL-cholesterol, they counteract the inflammatory changes
associated with acute coronary syndrome and improve survival. Similarly, in patients …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term cognitive outcomes after sepsis: a translational systematic review

T Barichello, P Sayana, VV Giridharan… - Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Sepsis is systemic inflammatory response syndrome with a life-threatening organ
dysfunction that is caused by an unbalanced host immune response in an attempt to …

Neuroanatomy and physiology of brain dysfunction in sepsis

A Mazeraud, Q Pascal, F Verdonk… - Clinics in chest …, 2016 - chestmed.theclinics.com
Sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE), a major complication of sepsis, is characterized
by impaired consciousness, including delirium and coma. Additionally SAE associates with …

[HTML][HTML] Omega-9 oleic acid induces fatty acid oxidation and decreases organ dysfunction and mortality in experimental sepsis

CF Gonçalves-de-Albuquerque… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Sepsis is characterized by inflammatory and metabolic alterations, which lead to massive
cytokine production, oxidative stress and organ dysfunction. In severe systemic inflammatory …