Qingliang Yang, Jordan C Langston, Roman Prosniak, Samantha Pettigrew, Huaqing Zhao, Edwin Perez, Hannah Edelmann, Nadia Mansoor, Carmen Merali, Salim Merali, Nathaniel Marchetti, Balabhaskar Prabhakarpandian, Mohammad F Kiani, Laurie E Kilpatrick
PURPOSE: Sepsis is a clinical syndrome defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Sepsis is a highly heterogeneous syndrome with distinct phenotypes that impact immune function and response to infection. To develop targeted therapeutics, immunophenotyping is needed to identify distinct functional phenotypes of immune cells. In this study, we utilized our Organ-on-Chip assay to categorize sepsis patients into distinct phenotypes using patient data, neutrophil functional analysis, and proteomics...
2024: Frontiers in Immunology