Miguel Contreras
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Recent Articles
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Contreras M, Silva B, Shickel B, Davidson A, Ozrazgat-Baslanti T, Ren Y, et al.
Res Sq
. 2024 Aug;
PMID: 39149454
On average, more than 5 million patients are admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) in the US, with mortality rates ranging from 10 to 29%. The acuity state of patients...
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Nerella S, Bandyopadhyay S, Zhang J, Contreras M, Siegel S, Bumin A, et al.
Artif Intell Med
. 2024 Jun;
154:102900.
PMID: 38878555
With Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly permeating various aspects of society, including healthcare, the adoption of the Transformers neural network architecture is rapidly changing many applications. Transformer is a type of...
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Contreras M, Silva B, Shickel B, Bandyopadhyay S, Guan Z, Ren Y, et al.
IEEE EMBS Int Conf Biomed Health Inform
. 2024 Apr;
2023.
PMID: 38585187
Delirium is a syndrome of acute brain failure which is prevalent amongst older adults in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Incidence of delirium can significantly worsen prognosis and increase mortality,...
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Contreras M, Bachman W, Long D
Micron
. 2022 Jun;
160:103302.
PMID: 35689876
Understanding cell behaviors can provide new knowledge on the development of different pathologies. Focal adhesion (FA) sites are important sub-cellular structures that are involved in these processes. To better facilitate...
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Lima-Martinez M, Carrera Boada C, Madera-Silva M, Marin W, Contreras M
Clin Investig Arterioscler
. 2020 Dec;
33(3):151-157.
PMID: 33303218
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causal agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Diabetes is one of the most frequent comorbidities in people with COVID-19 with a...
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Sardashti K, Haight R, Anderson R, Contreras M, Fruhberger B, Kummel A
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
. 2016 Jun;
8(24):14994-9.
PMID: 27248803
Cryogenic focused ion beam (Cryo-FIB) milling at near-grazing angles is employed to fabricate cross-sections on thin Cu(In,Ga)Se2 with >8x expansion in thickness. Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) on sloped cross...
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Lima-Martinez M, Paoli M, Rodney M, Balladares N, Contreras M, DMarco L, et al.
Endocrine
. 2015 Aug;
51(3):448-55.
PMID: 26233684
The aim of the study was to assess the effect of sitagliptin addition on the epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) thickness in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus inadequately controlled on...
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Lima-Martinez M, Campo E, Salazar J, Paoli M, Maldonado I, Acosta C, et al.
Arthritis
. 2015 Jan;
2014:782850.
PMID: 25574390
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) thickness may act as a therapeutic target during treatments with drugs...
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Lima-Martinez M, Guerra-Alcala E, Contreras M, Nastasi J, Noble J, Polychronakos C
Endocrinol Diabetes Metab Case Rep
. 2014 Oct;
2014:140072.
PMID: 25332771
Unlabelled: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a chronic disease characterized by the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic β-cells. This paper describes the case of a 19-year-old male patient who presented...
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Won J, Im Y, Khan M, Contreras M, Singh A, Singh I
J Neurochem
. 2008 Feb;
105(4):1536-49.
PMID: 18266936
Previous studies have described that statins (inhibitors of cholesterol and isoprenoid biosynthesis) inhibit the output of amyloid-beta (Abeta) in the animal model and thus decrease risk of Alzheimer's disease. However,...