Publications by authors named "Colin Fuller"

Cell Painting images offer valuable insights into a cell's state and enable many biological applications, but publicly available arrayed datasets only include hundreds of genes perturbed. The JUMP Cell Painting Consortium perturbed roughly 75% of the protein-coding genome in human U-2 OS cells, generating a rich resource of single-cell images and extracted features. These profiles capture the phenotypic impacts of perturbing 15,243 human genes, including overexpressing 12,609 genes (using open reading frames) and knocking out 7,975 genes (using CRISPR-Cas9).

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This literature review explores factors influencing neonatal ICU intubation success, compares outcomes across settings, and identifies strategies to improve outcomes in this vulnerable population. A PubMed search was conducted using relevant keywords related to neonatal tracheal intubation. Studies published in English from 2000 to 2024 were included, with additional sources identified through manual bibliography reviews.

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Concerns have been raised that professional athletes taking part in contact team sports, such as football and rugby union, are subject to the risk of post-career adverse health conditions. These health concerns include neurodegenerative diseases resulting from head impacts and osteoarthritis in lower limb joints due to wear and tear. There have been suggestions that athletes in contact team sports should be subject to exposure limitations to mitigate these risks.

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Objective: This study aims to compare the intraoperative ergonomics of tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies performed in seated versus standing positions for pediatric otolaryngology residents and attending physicians.

Study Design: A randomized controlled trial.

Setting: A tertiary care center.

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  • Inflammasomes are important protein complexes in the immune system, and their malfunction is connected to various health issues, necessitating targeted treatments based on specific diseases.
  • Researchers developed a sophisticated imaging assay for human immune cells, utilizing machine learning and cell biology techniques to analyze cellular responses related to inflammasome activity.
  • This approach successfully identified over 100 distinct inflammasome inhibitors from a large library of compounds, showcasing the potential for machine learning to enhance the understanding of complex biological processes and aid in drug discovery.
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Injury burden is a composite measure of injury incidence and mean severity; this parameter has been reported as an output measure from injury surveillance studies in rugby for over 20 years. The benefits of reporting injury burden results have, more recently, been recognised in other sports. This wider use of injury burden as an output measure from injury surveillance studies has, however, highlighted misunderstandings about how to calculate, present and interpret injury burden data.

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Importance: Although professional soccer players appear to be at higher risk of neurodegenerative disease, the reason remains unknown.

Objective: To examine whether heading frequency is associated with risk of cognitive impairment in retired professional soccer players.

Design, Setting, And Participants: A UK nationwide cross-sectional study was conducted between August 15, 2020, and December 31, 2021, in 459 retired male professional soccer players older than 45 years and registered with the Professional Footballers' Association or a League Club Players' Association.

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Background: Previous studies based on death certificates have found professional soccer players were more likely to die with neurodegenerative diseases, including dementia. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether retired professional male soccer players would perform worse on cognitive tests and be more likely to self-report dementia diagnosis than general population control men.

Methods: A cross-sectional comparative study was conducted between August 2020 and October 2021 in the United Kingdom (UK).

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Objective: The addition of a uvular flap (PFU) was hypothesized to improve outcomes over standard pharyngeal flap (PF) for correction of velopharyngeal dysfunction. We report differences in outcomes of PF vs PFU at our institution.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

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Injury burden is a composite measure of injury incidence and mean severity; this parameter has been reported as an output measure from injury surveillance studies in rugby for over 20 years. The benefits of reporting injury burden results have, more recently, been recognised in other sports. This wider use of injury burden as an output measure from injury surveillance studies has, however, highlighted misunderstandings about how to calculate, present and interpret injury burden data.

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  • The study aims to evaluate the prevalence, incidence, and impact of gradual-onset knee injuries in team ball sports through a systematic review and meta-analysis.
  • Researchers analyzed data from 49 studies that reported on various types of gradual-onset knee injuries across 15 different team ball sports, finding varying rates of prevalence and incidence.
  • The findings highlight that gradual-onset knee injuries are prevalent, with a significant burden in terms of days lost, and call for further research to explore factors like age, type of sport, and level of participation as potential predictors of these injuries.
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Background: Not all anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are preventable. While some ACL injuries are unavoidable such as those resulting from a tackle, others that occur in non-contact situations like twisting and turning in the absence of external contact might be more preventable. Because ACL injuries commonly occur in team ball-sports that involve jumping, landing and cutting manoeuvres, accurate information about the epidemiology of non-contact ACL injuries in these sports is needed to quantify their extent and burden to guide resource allocation for risk-reduction efforts.

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Introduction: Professional footballers commonly experience sports-related injury and repetitive microtrauma to the foot and ankle, placing them at risk of subsequent chronic pain and osteoarthritis (OA) of the foot and ankle. Similarly, repeated heading of the ball, head/neck injuries and concussion have been implicated in later development of neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia. A recent retrospective study found that death from neurodegenerative diseases was higher among former professional soccer players compared with age matched controls.

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Social marketing is successful at tackling global health threats and social change but has not been fully explored in sports injury prevention contexts. The social marketing mix (product, price, place, and promotion) can help create exercise-based injury prevention programs with high-value propositions that will be relevant to their implementation (adoption, adherence, maintenance). To improve the real-world effectiveness of injury prevention programs, we share steps that researchers and sports administrators can take tomorrow to leverage the social marketing mix to encourage downstream consumers, such as coaches, clinicians, parents, and athletes, to implement injury prevention programs.

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Bleeding complications due to IHs are generally limited. Secondary abscess formation after hemorrhage has not been reported. Rapid expansion of an IH should raise concern for hemorrhage in IHs that have been an involutionary phase.

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  • Pediatric tracheostomy requires thorough pre-operative assessment, family education, skilled surgical procedures, and multidisciplinary care post-operation to ensure safety and effectiveness.
  • It has a low occurrence rate of 0.2% in pediatric inpatient stays, with mortality rates between 10-20% linked to the serious health conditions of the patients, although major complications have become rare.
  • Current studies emphasize the need for improved decision-making and care strategies, with a call for more research to standardize protocols for the safe removal of tracheostomies.
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Objective: Velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) is a common speech disorder in patients with a history of cleft palate (CP) or 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Pharyngeal flap (PF) and sphincter pharyngoplasty (SP) are 2 common surgeries to treat this disorder by decreasing unwanted nasal air emission and hypernasal resonance.

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This study aimed to describe anthropometry and incidence, nature and causes of match injuries in women's international rugby sevens and to compare these with results reported previously for men's international rugby sevens. The study comprised an 8-season, prospective study of World Rugby's women's Sevens World Series. Over the eight seasons, the overall incidence of injury was 105.

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Purpose: While kicking in Rugby Union can be influential to match outcome, the epidemiology of kicking injuries remains unknown. This study therefore aimed to investigate the epidemiology of injuries attributed to kicking in professional rugby, including playing position-specific effects and differences in kicking volumes and kick types.

Methods: Fifteen seasons of injury surveillance data and two seasons of match kicking characteristics from professional rugby players were analyzed.

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The aim of this study was to describe the incidence, nature and causes of match injuries in men's international rugby sevens and to compare these to values for international rugby fifteens. The study comprised a 10-season, whole population, prospective study of the Sevens World Series. Over the ten seasons, the overall incidence of injury was 122.

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Background: The long-term risk from knee intra-articular (KIA) injections in professional athletes such as ex-footballers remains unknown. The use of KIA injections is controversial and remains anecdotally prolific as it is perceived as being safe/beneficial. The aim of this study was to determine the number, type and frequency KIA injections administered to retired professional footballers during their playing careers and the associations with post-career knee osteoarthritis (KOA).

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Rugby union is a popular team sport that demands high levels of physical fitness and skill. The study aim was to examine trends in training volume and its impact on injury incidence, severity and burden over an 11-season period in English professional rugby. Data were recorded from 2007/08 through 2017/18, capturing 1,501,606 h of training exposure and 3,782 training injuries.

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Objectives: To determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms and general health of male ex-professional footballers compared with general population controls.

Methods: 572 retired professional footballers and 500 general population controls in the UK were assessed by postal questionnaire. Anxiety and depressive symptoms were assessed using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and a threshold score of ≥11 was used to indicate probable caseness.

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Objectives: The vast majority of rugby union ('rugby') participants are community-based players; however, the majority of injury surveillance studies reported relate to the elite, professional game. A potential reason for this dearth of studies could be the perceived difficulty of using the consensus statement for injury recording at the community level. The aim of this study was to identify areas where the consensus statement could be adapted for easier and more appropriate implementation within the community setting.

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Objective: To determine risk factors for 3 knee osteoarthritis (KOA) outcomes, knee pain (KP), radiographic KOA (RKOA), and total knee replacement (TKR) in professional footballers.

Design: This was a cross-sectional study involving a postal questionnaire, followed by radiographic assessment in a subcohort of responders.

Settings And Participants: Four thousand seven hundred seventy-five questionnaires were sent to retired professional footballers, who had played in the English football league, and 1207 responded.

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