Jan 31, 2022

Rheumatic diseases are often associated to debilitating chronic pain, which remains difficult to treat and requires new therapeutic strategies. We had previously identified lysophosphatidyl-choline (L...

Jan 24, 2022

Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (qMRI) is frequently used to map disease state and disease progression in lower extremity muscles of patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). This is in sta...

Jan 24, 2022

Chronic pain is a prevalent condition in youth, and the pain experience is strongly influenced by emotional processes. Studying emotion variability and regulation (ER) may help better understand pain ...

Jan 24, 2022

There is no clear understanding of the mechanisms causing persistent pain in patients with whiplash-associated disorder (WAD). The aim of this systematic review was to assess the evidence for nerve pa...

Jan 17, 2022

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals ("sexual minorities" [SMs]) are overrepresented among individuals suffering from alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems. However, little is known regarding differ...

Jan 10, 2022

Studies comparing different drug treatments for chronic neuropathic pain (NP) are very limited. We, therefore, examined 4 recommended treatments, namely, antidepressants (duloxetine, venlafaxine, and ...

Jan 10, 2022

Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is a ubiquitously expressed integral cellular protein essential for regulating proteomic stress. Previous research has shown that Hsp90 regulates critical signaling pathw...

Jan 03, 2022

Historically, about 20% of hospitalized combat injured patients have an abdominal injury. Abdominal evisceration may be expected to complicate as many as one-third of battle-related abdominal wounds. ...

Jan 03, 2022

Adolescent pain is common and continues into adulthood, leading to negative long-term outcomes including substance-related morbidity: an empirical definition of its construct may inform the early dete...

Dec 27, 2021

Marine omega-3 fatty acid (omega-3) supplements have been used to treat depression but their ability to prevent depression in the general adult population is unknown.To test effects of omega-3 supplem...

Dec 21, 2021

Despite efforts to curb opioid use disorder (OUD), the epidemic continues to be a major national crisis. Methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone are standard of care FDA-approved treatments for OUD, ...

Dec 20, 2021

Retrospective case series.To evaluate the risks and causes of neurologic complications in three-column spinal surgery by analyzing intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) data.Three-column...

Dec 20, 2021

To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of abatacept over 52 weeks in biologic-naïve rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with moderate disease activity in the prospective, 5-year, observational stu...

Dec 20, 2021

High molecular weight hyaluronan (HMWH) is an agonist at cluster of differentiation 44 (CD44), the cognate hyaluronan receptor, on nociceptors, where it acts to induce anti-hyperalgesia in preclinical...

Dec 20, 2021

A prospective, 2-armed, parallel group randomised controlled trial (RCT) was conducted to compare the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) combined with a supervised exercise progr...

Nov 29, 2021

The roots of Kadsura coccinea is commonly used in Tujia ethnomedicine, named "heilaohu", having the effect of treating rheumatic arthritis (RA). Chemical investigation on the ethanol extract of heilao...

Nov 29, 2021

Nociceptors are known to directly recognize bacterial cell wall components or secreted toxins, thereby leading to pain induced by bacterial infection. However, direct activation of nociceptors by bact...

Nov 29, 2021

Prior systematic reviews have summarized the prevalence and impact of chronic pain in "average" pediatric (i.e., school-age) and adult (i.e., middle-age) age groups. To our knowledge, this is the firs...

Nov 22, 2021

High-level spinal cord injury commonly leads to blood pressure instability. This manifests clinically as orthostatic hypotension (OH), where blood pressure can drop to the point of loss of consciousne...

Nov 22, 2021

Psoriasis is a dermatological condition often associated with systemic comorbidities such as arthritis. Because of the vital role of treatment compliance in improvement in patients' condition and the ...