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  • Fentanyl and Xylazine: Why Breathing Fails in Overdose

    Her findings highlight how fentanyl suppresses inhalation while xylazine prolongs exhalation, creating Fentanyl was implicated in the vast majority of those deaths. Yet fentanyl is increasingly not alone. With fentanyl, the danger lies in apneas —complete pauses in breathing. “Fentanyl and xylazine aren’t just statistics. They’re rewriting the biology of overdose.

  • Fentanyl activates ovarian cancer and alleviates chemotherapy-induced toxicity via opioid...

    September 2022 Fentanyl activates ovarian cancer and alleviates chemotherapy-induced toxicity via opioid receptor-dependent activation of EGFR "Background Fentanyl is an opioid analgesic and is widely used the effect of fentanyl on ovarian cancer cells. Xenograft mouse model was generated to investigate the in vivo efficacy of fentanyl. Combination index was analyzed for the combination of fentanyl and chemotherapeutic drugs.

  • Purpose-Driven Opioid Research: Catherine Demery’s Academic Path

    freedom to pursue questions that matter—questions tied to urgent public health crises like the opioid epidemic “They’ve seen a 30 to 60 percent increase in the number of fentanyl samples that contain xylazine in focus on outcomes such as respiratory rate, tidal volume, and oxygen saturation in mice exposed to fentanyl

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