UW Neurological Surgery Recent PubMed Publications

CONCLUSION: Male and female patients demonstrated comparable improvements in PROs, achievement of clinically meaningful thresholds, revision rates, and rates of conversion to total hip arthroplasty after hip arthroscopy. Although men exhibited larger alpha angles and more advanced chondral damage, and women more frequently underwent capsular repair, these sex-based differences did not translate into clinically significant disparities in postoperative outcomes.

CONCLUSIONS: Primary care OUD treatment rates varied markedly. Exemplar clinics in which all primary care providers were expected to treat OUD had the highest treatment rates at baseline and follow-up, suggesting that universal prescribing is a promising approach to increasing OUD treatment in primary care.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study did not demonstrate differences in shunt survival between children <6 months of age requiring cerebrospinal fluid diversion secondary to PHH who had NEC and those who did not. Thus, peritoneal shunt placement may be suitable for children with NEC despite having abdominal interventions.

The human neocortex underlies higher cognition and is the engine of complex thought. Yet our understanding of its neuronal diversity is limited by sparse access to tissue, inconsistent sampling across studies, and a lack of multiple modality data. Although single-cell transcriptomic taxonomies are an important framework for characterizing cell type diversity, transcriptomic information alone cannot reveal the cellular properties that define neuronal computations. To address this, we performed...

BACKGROUND: Before infecting red blood cells and causing the clinical manifestations of malaria, the hepatotropic parasite Plasmodium falciparum completes a complex liver stage. Sex-based differences in pathogenesis by hepatotropic micro-organisms are well documented but unstudied for P falciparum in humans. We aimed to evaluate the effect of sex on the time to blood-stage positivity and initial blood-stage parasite densities as indicators of liver-stage dynamics and parasite replication.

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Correction for 'HunStat2 - a simple and low-cost potentiostat with electrochemical impedance spectroscopy capability' by Istvan Vamos et al., Anal. Methods, 2025, 17, 9494-9499, https://doi.org/10.1039/D5AY01179E.

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Follicular lymphoma (FL) patients have variable outcomes, underscoring the need for biomarkers for improved risk stratification. Current FL grading systems, based on subjective centroblast counts, suffer from poor reproducibility, despite evidence linking grade 3 FL to worse prognosis. We aimed to identify objective biomarkers for centroblasts and centrocytes to improve FL prognostication. We reanalyzed publicly available spatial and single-cell transcriptomic data from normal germinal centers...

Background/Objectives: To evaluate risk factors for postoperative neurological deficits following cervical endoscopic unilateral laminotomy for bilateral decompression (CE-ULBD) and to determine whether intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) can predict neurological compromise. Methods: A multicenter retrospective review was performed on 42 CE-ULBD procedures conducted between 2016 and 2024; 33 cases met the inclusion criteria with available imaging and electromyography data....

Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing by ADAR enzymes shapes transcript fate and underpins emerging RNA editing therapeutics, yet predicting which adenosines are edited remains difficult. We introduce ADAR-GPT, a model-agnostic fine-tuning framework that adapts a GPT-class language model to classify editing at candidate sites using sequence context in standardized 201 nt windows with the target adenosine explicitly marked. We train and evaluate on GTEx liver data ([Formula: see text]...

Treatment resistance remains a formidable barrier to curing lymphomas, driven in part by their ability to alter their phenotypic and molecular profiles under therapeutic pressure. A growing body of evidence suggests that a clinically minute population of drug-tolerant persister (DTP) cells, which undergo non-genetic adaptations to survive therapy, are responsible for seeding relapse. We highlight the substantial progress being made to characterize DTP populations, and postulate that they confer...

Creatine (CR) is essential for normal brain function. A lack of brain CR results in intellectual disability, epilepsy, and language delay in humans. The most common cause of CR deficiency in humans results from mutations in the CR transporter (SLC6A8). Several large deletion models of Slc6a8 have been characterized and are excellent models for global creatine loss. However, other SLC6A8 variants are reported in humans with creatine transporter deficiency (CTD), including missense mutations,...

While most meningiomas are benign and can be surgically removed, a subset behaves aggressively, recurs quickly, and can ultimately be fatal. Recent work has focused on defining this aggressive group. To better characterize this clinically distinct, high-risk group, we analyzed bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) from human meningiomas using a dimension-reduced reference landscape. We identified an NF2 mutant subtype enriched for chromosome 10q loss and low PTEN expression, both of which were strongly...

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CONCLUSIONS: Together, these phenotypic findings indicate that NT5C2 is a conserved neuro-metabolic regulator, linking energy-related pathways to specific behavioral dimensions that may underlie its pleiotropic impact on psychiatric and metabolic risk.

Among the three classes of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels (CaV1, CaV2, and CaV3), CaV3 T-type channels are drug targets for disorders, including epilepsy and pain. Antagonists such as Z944 and ML218 are highly selective for CaV3 compared with the CaV1.2 L-type channel, but whether they have additional activity on other CaV1 subtypes is unknown. Here, we investigated the effects of Z944 and ML218 on the CaV1.4 channel, which regulates neurotransmitter release from retinal photoreceptors. In HEK293T...

The Glasgow Outcome Scale-Extended (GOSE) is the most frequently used outcome measure for traumatic brain injury (TBI) clinical trials. The GOSE may be administered several ways, the choice depending on the purpose of the research. For example, the GOSE can be administered to reflect functional limitations attributed to the overall injury, including extracranial injuries (GOSE-All), or to discount limitations attributed to extracranial injuries (GOSE-TBI). In this investigation, we assessed the...

Childhood adversity is associated with increased engagement in health risk behaviors (HRBs), such as substance use, violence, and risky sexual behaviors during adolescence, which contribute to leading causes of death and disability throughout the lifespan. Threat and deprivation are two dimensions of adversity that impact health and wellbeing through partially distinct developmental pathways, but no studies have examined if and how HRBs differ by adversity dimension. This pre-registered network...

Germline pathogenic variants that activate the Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway cause neurodevelopmental disorders called 'Rasopathies'. Because many affected proteins directly regulate Ras, causative mutations may alter other Ras-dependent pathways in addition to MAPK signaling. To better understand which Rasopathy sequelae result from hyperactivation of downstream MAP kinases, we engineered mice with a gain-of-function mutation in the terminal MAP kinase gene Mapk1, which...