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Alpha-7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Activation Inhibits Trauma Induced Pronociceptive Autoimmune Responses.

Nov 13, 2023

Both autonomic nervous system dysfunction and immune system activation are characteristic of chronic pain after limb injuries. Cholinergic agonists reduce immune system activation in many settings. We...

Tofacitinib Efficacy in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Probable Depression/Anxiety: Post Hoc Analysis of Phase 3 and 3b/4 Randomized Controlled Trials.

Nov 06, 2023

The aim of our work is to assess the prevalence of probable major depressive disorder and/or probable generalized anxiety disorder (pMDD/pGAD) in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis ...

Peripheral Pain Captured Centrally: Altered Brain Morphology on MRI in Small Fiber Neuropathy Patients With and Without an SCN9A Gene Variant.

Nov 06, 2023

The current study aims to characterize brain morphology of pain as reported by small fiber neuropathy (SFN) patients with or without a gain-of-function variant involving the SCN9A gene and compare the...

Efficacy of non-conventional synthetic DMARDs for patients with rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Oct 30, 2023

We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the efficacy of non-conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (ncs-DMARD) strategies on patients with rheumatoid arthr...

Benign or painful? The interpretation of pain and fear of progression in rheumatoid arthritis.

Oct 30, 2023

People with chronic pain tend to interpret ambiguous information as health-related, more so than people without. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ex...

Deactivation of dorsal CA1 pyramidal neurons projecting to medial prefrontal cortex contributes to neuropathic pain and short-term memory impairment.

Oct 30, 2023

Neuropathic pain after peripheral nerve injury is a multidimensional experience that includes sensory, affective, and cognitive components that interact with one another. Hypoexcitation of the medial ...

Surgical Intervention is Associated with Improved Outcomes in Patients with Symptomatic Cervical Spine Tarlov Cysts: Results from a Prospective Cohort Study.

Oct 23, 2023

Tarlov cysts are known contributors to radiculopathy but are often misdiagnosed and mismanaged due to a paucity of information. This is particularly true of cervical spine Tarlov cysts since most atte...

Functional implications of rs9373441 with FOXP3+Treg and Tr1 for the clinical effectiveness of csDMARDs in Rheumatoid arthritis.

Oct 23, 2023

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by a deficiency in regulatory T cells (Treg), which play a crucial role in immune regulation. While conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic dr...

Enhanced intra-articular therapy for rheumatoid arthritis using click-crosslinked hyaluronic acid hydrogels loaded with toll-like receptor antagonizing peptides.

Oct 23, 2023

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that results in the deterioration of joint cartilage and bone. Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) has been pinpointed as a key factor in RA-relate...

Cannabidiol (CBD) products for pain: ineffective, expensive, and with potential harms.

Oct 23, 2023

Cannabidiol (CBD) attracts considerable attention for promoting good health and treating various conditions, predominantly pain, often in breach of advertising rules. Examination of available CBD prod...

The impact of the transversus abdominis plane block (TAP) on stress response measured through the complete blood- derived inflammatory markers.

Oct 16, 2023

This study aims to evaluate the effect of the transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block on the blood cells and the inflammatory markers neutrophil- to- lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet- to- lymphocyte r...

Low Daily Step Count Associated with Small Erector Spine Muscle Area and Sarcopenia in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.

Oct 16, 2023

Objective The daily step count is associated with mortality in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). However, the factors associated with this phenomenon are not yet fully understood. We therefore clar...

The Medication Quantification Scale 4.0: An updated index based on prescribers' perceptions of the risk associated with chronic pain medications.

Oct 16, 2023

To quantify risks associated with drug utilization in the real world for the treatment of chronic pain (CP), an index called the Medication Quantification Scale (MQS) was developed in 1992 in the Unit...

Proteomic Analysis to Identify Prospective Biomarkers of Treatment Outcome After Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Preliminary Study.

Oct 16, 2023

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a severe neuropathic facial pain disorder, often caused by vascular or neuronal compression of the trigeminal nerve. In such cases, microvascular decompression (MVD) surge...

Skin Decontamination of Carfentanil in vitro.

Oct 09, 2023

Skin decontamination of Chemical Biological Radioactive and Nuclear (CBRN) materials involves the timely and effective removal of the contaminants from the skin surface. The current work evaluated Ful...

Neurobiological correlation between phosphorylated tau and mood symptoms in memory clinic patients.

Oct 09, 2023

Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia and mild cognitive impairment are characterised by impaired cognition accompanied by neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) relating to mood, including depression, anxiety, ...

Wnt5a: A promising therapeutic target for inflammation, especially rheumatoid arthritis.

Oct 09, 2023

Wnt5a is a member of the Wnt protein family, which acts on classical or multiple non-classical Wnt signaling pathways by binding to different receptors. The expression regulation and signal transducti...

Hyper negative GABA reversal potential in pyramidal cells contributes to medial prefrontal cortex deactivation in a mouse model of neuropathic pain.

Oct 09, 2023

Deactivation of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been broadly reported in both neuropathic pain models and human chronic pain patients. Several cellular mechanisms may contribute to the inhibition ...

A Personalized Protocol for Prescribing Opioids After Cesarean Delivery: Leveraging the Electronic Medical Record to Reduce Outpatient Opioid Prescriptions.

Oct 02, 2023

Though cesarean delivery is the most common surgery performed in the United States, prescribing practices for analgesia vary. Strategies to manage postpartum pain have mostly focused on the immediate ...

Medications for opioid use disorder prescribed at hospital discharge associated with decreased opioid agonist dispensing in patients with opioid use disorder requiring critical care: A retrospective study.

Oct 02, 2023

Buprenorphine is highly effective for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD), and, in recent years, the rates of patients maintained on buprenorphine requiring critical care have been steadily inc...

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