
Paul O’Connor
@paulmoconnor1
Basic scientist and bad guesser who tries to make up with observation. Educator who ends up learning far more than he teaches. Proud dad.
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28-04-2018 18:22:57
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What’s Wrong With Peer Review? * A series of high-profile retractions has raised questions about the process used by scientific and medical journals to decide which studies are worthy of publication. Nidhi Subbaraman writes The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/science/whats-…

Great to have this out in its final form Development! #FluorescenceFriday

The real plague affecting science? It isn’t fraud "selective reporting, selective citing, and flaws in quality assurance and mentoring are the major evils of modern research" Ivan Oransky Adam Marcus write at STAT statnews.com/2016/12/01/pla…





Interested in ischemic kidney injury? My recent review in Comprehensive Physiology details the role of red blood cell trapping (vascular congestion) to meditate tubular injury in ischemic AKI. APS Publications onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

This review also highlights the hypotheses surrounding the development of RBC trapping as well as summarizes the newest data from the Paul O’Connor lab regarding it's initiation



Our new paper is out in Clinical Science looking at bicarbonate in CKD pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38300615/ Suggests NaHCO3 is not benign in terms of blood pressure. Also, metabolic acidosis in CKD may reflect single nephron flow i.e. filtration of bicarbonate is too much to be reabsorbed.


Thank you Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis APS for inviting me to share our work at Data Diuresis!



