Advertisement

Pain General

Understanding the role of tissue-specific decellularized spinal cord matrix hydrogel for neural stem/progenitor cell microenvironment reconstruction and spinal cord injury.

Dec 21, 2020

The repair of spinal cord injury (SCI) highly relies on microenvironment remodeling and facilitating the recruitment and neuronal differentiation of endogenous stem/progenitor cells. Decellularized ti...

Fear avoidance beliefs are associated with reduced lumbar spine flexion during object lifting in pain-free adults.

Dec 21, 2020

There is a long-held belief that physical activities such as lifting with a flexed spine is generally harmful for the back and can cause low back pain (LBP), potentially reinforcing fear avoidance bel...

Two independent mouse lines carrying the Nav1.7-I228M gain-of-function variant display DRG neuron hyperexcitability but a minimal pain phenotype.

Dec 21, 2020

Small-fiber neuropathy (SFN), characterized by distal unmyelinated/thinly-myelinated fiber loss, produces a combination of sensory dysfunction and neuropathic pain. Gain-of-function variants in the so...

Revisiting patient-related barriers to cancer pain management in the context of the US opioid crisis.

Dec 21, 2020

Patient fear of addiction is a well-documented barrier to the use of analgesic medications for cancer pain control. Over the past 2 decades in the US, an "opioid crisis" has arisen, accompanied by ris...

Naturalistic 6-month antidepressants follow-up in patients with fibromyalgia: impact on somatic and mood spectrum symptoms.

Dec 21, 2020

Literature shows high rates of comorbidity between fibromyalgia (FM) and mood disorders, especially major depressive disorder (MMD), reported in more than half of the cases. Consistently, patients wit...

Adult Autism Subthreshold spectrum correlates to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder spectrum in patients with fibromyalgia.

Dec 21, 2020

Fibromyalgia (FM) is an increasingly prevalent disorder that usually shows a chronic course and a disappointing therapeutic response in which psychiatric features seem to play a relevant role. Most re...

Good pain, bad pain: illness perception and physician attitudes towards rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia patients.

Dec 21, 2020

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) are common diagnoses encountered in rheumatology practice, but do not enjoy the same status. We aimed to examine physician's illness perception...

Management of giant presacral schwannoma. Clinical series and literature review.

Dec 21, 2020

Presacral schwannomas are rare tumors. Due to their benign nature and slow growth, these tumors are often giant and become difficult to treat. Their removal is a surgical challenge with different stra...

In vitro display evolution of IL-6R-binding unnatural peptides ribosomally initiated and cyclized with m-(chloromethyl)benzoic acid.

Dec 21, 2020

The interaction of the multifunctional cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 and its receptor (IL-6R) is involved in various diseases, including not only autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis but als...

An overview of the NF-kB mechanism of pathophysiology in rheumatoid arthritis, investigation of the NF-kB ligand RANKL and related nutritional interventions.

Dec 21, 2020

Nuclear Factor Kappa-Β (NF-kB) is recognized as one of the main inflammatory pathways in the Autoimmune Disease (AD) Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), which exhibits high levels of inflammatory cytokines su...

Suppression of lncRNA MALAT1 reduces pro-inflammatory cytokines production by regulating miR-150-5p/ZBTB4 axis through JAK/STAT signal pathway in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Dec 21, 2020

Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) is a common chronic disease occurring in children. Increasing studies have demonstrated that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in the pat...

Opioid overdose in the age of fentanyl: Risk factor differences among subpopulations of overdose survivors.

Dec 17, 2020

Although fentanyl is the drug most frequently implicated in overdose deaths, the association between overdose risk and attitudes and behaviors surrounding fentanyl in opioid-using communities has rema...

Erenumab for headaches in idiopathic intracranial hypertension: A prospective open-label evaluation.

Dec 17, 2020

To determine the effectiveness of erenumab in treating headaches in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) in whom papilledema had resolved.Disability in IIH is predominantly driven by debilitatin...

Serum NO, S100B, NSE concentrations in migraine and their relationship.

Dec 17, 2020

Migraine pathogenesis still remains uncertain. Studies have found contradictory results regarding NO, S100B and NSE parameters in migraine patients. Therefore, in our study, we aimed to measure NO, S1...

Occipital Nerve Stimulation and Sphenopalatine Ganglion Stimulation for Treatment of Intractable Headache Syndromes.

Dec 17, 2020

Headaches are an increasing cause of disability in the world. Intractable headache syndromes affect all age groups but predominantly the middle-aged, working population. Occipital neuralgia is a frequ...

Not All Pain is Created Equal: Basic Definitions and Diagnostic Work-Up.

Dec 17, 2020

Chronic pain is considered a public health priority by the World Health Organization and European health institutions. It has reached alarming proportions in terms of disability, consumption of health...

Effects of intensity, attention and medication on auditory-evoked potentials in patients with fibromyalgia.

Dec 17, 2020

Fibromyalgia (FM) has been associated to an increased processing of somatosensory stimuli, but its generalization to other sensory modalities is under discussion. To clarify this, we studied auditory ...

Effects of Ganoderma lucidum and Ceratonia siliqua on blood glucose, lipid profile, and body composition in women with fibromyalgia.

Dec 17, 2020

fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic rheumatic disorder that is related to high levels of cholesterol, high values of diastolic pressure, higher waist-to-hip-ratio (WHR), and higher body mass index.the aim ...

Essential work, precarious labour: The need for safer and equitable harm reduction work in the era of COVID-19.

Dec 17, 2020

This commentary highlights labour concerns and inequities within the harm reduction sector that hinder programs' ability to respond to converging public health emergencies (the overdose crisis and COV...

Advances in immunotherapy for the treatment of spinal cord injury.

Dec 17, 2020

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a leading cause of morbidity and disability in the world. Over the past few decades, the exact molecular mechanisms describing secondary, persistent injuries, as well as pr...

SUBSPECIALTIES

Advertisement