Pain emotion and homeostasis
New insights into anterior cruc ...
Purpose Injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) occur frequently, particularly in young adult athletes, and represent the majority of the l ...
An anatomical three-dimensional ...
Purpose For many years, the anatomy of the medial knee corner has been reported. However, it is not exactly clear how all these structures function ...
Effect of sealants on laser flu ...
The aim of this study was to investigate in vitro the effects of clear or opaque sealants, on the laser fluorescence readings for occlusal caries de ...
Effects of low-power laser irra ...
Gallium-arsenide (GaAs) and helium-neon (HeNe) lasers are the most commonly used low-energy lasers in physiotherapy for promoting wound healing and ...
Inflammatory cytokines are supp ...
Human gingival fibroblasts (hGFs) play an important role in the inflammatory reaction to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from P. gingivalis, which infects ...
Association Between Pneumonia a ...
Pneumonia remains the leading cause of death in nursing home residents. The accumulation of dental plaque and colonization of oral surfaces and dent ...
Sleep Quality, Depression, and ...
Pulmonary hypertension is a disabling disease characterized by progressive functional worsening, right heart failure, and death. Although pulmonary ...
Evaluation of efficacy and safe ...
The efficacy and safety of generic and brand name levofolinate injectable drugs were evaluated in 42 chemotherapy-na¨ve patients with colorectal ca ...
Expression and significance of ...
Connexin 43(Cx43) and E-cadherin are concurrently expressed in many tumors and were ever classified as tumor suppressors in primary tumors (PT), whe ...
The Challenges with Brain Death ...
Background To identify a reliable method of performing apnea testing as part of brain death determination in adult patients who develop loss of brai ...
The Effect of Decompressive Hem ...
Background Animal studies have shown that even a small temperature elevation of 1C can cause detrimental effects after brain injury. Since the skul ...
Emergent, Controlled Lumbar Dra ...
Background Measurement of intracranial pressure (ICP) is recommended in comatose acute liver failure (ALF) patients due to risk of rapid global cere ...
Role of glial cells in neurotox ...
Dopaminergic neurons are selectively vulnerable to oxidative stress and inflammatory attack. The neuronal cell loss in the substantia nigra is assoc ...
Electroacupuncture enhances cel ...
To investigate the effect of electroacupuncture on cell proliferation and differentiation in young rat hippocampus, postnatal day-14 rats were assig ...
Pain emotion and homeostasis
Pain has always been considered as part of a defensive strategy, whose specific role is to signal an immediate, active danger. This definition parti ...
Expression of locus coeruleus m ...
The pathogenesis of the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may involve dysfunction of several brain structures, such as the amygdala, locus coeru ...
Variations of frataxin protein ...
Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA) is the most common of the inherited ataxias and is associated with GAA trinucleotide repeat expansions within the first i ...
Relapsed spontaneous spinal epi ...
is a rare spinal pathology. A 57-year-old man who had hypertension and had been on dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and clopidogrel for primar ...
Postictal inhibition of the som ...
Transient suppression of the motor cortex and of the speech areas cause well-described postictal phenomena following seizures involving the respecti ...
Nerve and muscle involvement in ...
Involvement of the peripheral nervous system in mitochondrial disorders (MD) has been previously reported. However, the exact prevalence of peripher ...
VGCC antibody-positive paraneop ...
A 70-year-old woman developed paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD) due to P/Q-type and N-type voltage-gated calcium channel antibodies and s ...
Bone mineral density in ambulat ...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) may be associated with reduced bone mass and higher frequency of osteoporosis. Femoral and spinal bone mineral density (BMD) ...
Intractable focal epilepsy cont ...
We report an unusual case of Parry–Romberg syndrome in which medically refractory focal epilepsy with ongoing epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) aro ...
Effects of conjugated linoleic ...
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) plays important roles in physiological conditions. The aim of present study was to explore the effects of CLA on the ...
Mammillotegmental tract in the ...
Introduction Several animal studies have been conducted for the identification of the mammillotegmental tract (MTT); however, no study has been repo ...