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Tanezumab for chronic low back pain: a randomized, double-blind, placebo- and active-controlled, phase 3 study of efficacy and safety.

May 28, 2020

This randomized, double-blind, Phase 3 study (56-week treatment; 24-week follow-up) assessed tanezumab in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and history of inadequate response to standard-of-c...

Effect of Doxycycline on Aneurysm Growth Among Patients With Small Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

May 28, 2020

Abdominal aortic aneurysms affect more than 3% of US older adults.To test whether doxycycline reduces the growth of abdominal aortic aneurysm over 2 years as measured by maximum transverse diameter.Pa...

Effect of the His-Tag Location on Decapping Scavenger Enzymes and Their Hydrolytic Activity toward Cap Analogs.

May 28, 2020

Decapping scavenger enzymes (DcpSs) are important players in mRNA degradation machinery and conserved in eukaryotes. Importantly, human DcpS is the recognized target for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) ...

Circulating sclerostin is associated with bone mineral density independent of HIV-serostatus.

May 28, 2020

Low bone mineral density (BMD) is commonly observed in people living with HIV (PLWH), however the cause for this BMD loss remains unclear. Sclerostin, a bone-derived antagonist to the Wnt/β-catenin-p...

Higher Serum CCN3 Is Associated with Disease Activity and Inflammatory Markers in Rheumatoid Arthritis.

May 28, 2020

Nephroblastoma overexpressed protein (NOV/CCN3), the early discovered member of the CCN family, has recently been suggested to be involved in a number of inflammatory processes, including wound healin...

The transition from acute to chronic pain: dynamic epigenetic reprogramming of the mouse prefrontal cortex up to one year following nerve injury.

May 26, 2020

Chronic pain is associated with persistent structural and functional changes throughout the neuroaxis, including in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). The PFC is important in the integration of sensory, cog...

Interleukin-10 resolves pain hypersensitivity induced by cisplatin by reversing sensory neuron hyperexcitability.

May 26, 2020

Understanding the mechanisms that drive transition from acute to chronic pain is essential to identify new therapeutic targets. The importance of endogenous resolution pathways acting as a "brake" to ...

Exploring the Psychometric Properties of the Current Opioid Misuse Measure among Adults with Chronic Pain and Opioid Use.

May 26, 2020

The opioid epidemic is a significant public health problem that is associated with overdose and death. The increase in opioid-related problems can largely be attributed to increases in opioid prescrip...

Exercise Induced Hypoalgesia is Impaired in Chronic Whiplash Associated Disorders (WAD) with Both Aerobic and Isometric Exercise.

May 26, 2020

Exercise induced hypoalgesia (EIH) can be impaired in patients with chronic pain and may be dependent on exercise type. Factors predictive of EIH are not known. This study aimed to: (1) compare EIH in...

No Evidence of Altered Reactivity to Experimentally-induced Pain Among Regular Cannabis Users.

May 26, 2020

Recent years have seen an increase in the adoption of cannabinoid medicines, which have demonstrated effectiveness for the treatment of chronic pain. However, the extent to which frequent cannabis use...

Acute Total Knee Replacement in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients with Proximal Tibial Fractures: A Case Series.

May 26, 2020

Management of proximal tibial fractures is a challenging issue in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In the present study, we aimed to describe our experience of acute total knee replacement in ...

A Look at Inappropriate Inpatient IV Opioid Use

May 08, 2020

With evidence indicating that overprescription of opioids has contributed to the current opioid epidemic, current Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) guidelines recommend using the oral route of admini...

Comorbidities & Risk of Migraine Progression

May 05, 2020

Research indicates that Chronic migraine (CM; ≥15 monthly headache days with 8 or more linked to migraine) is associated with higher rates of disability and comorbidities, as well as reductions in h...

A Novel Virtual Reality Approach to CRPS

May 03, 2020

Chronic pain affects an estimated 20% of people worldwide and remains difficult to treat. Although previous studies suggest that altering the central representation of the body through multisensory bo...

Many Legal Marijuana Products Too Strong for Treating Pain

Apr 03, 2020

FRIDAY, April 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Legally dispensed marijuana products have stronger concentrations of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) than needed for chronic pain relief, acc...

External Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation for VM

Apr 01, 2020

Despite being the most common neurologic cause of vertigo in adults, no FDA-approved treatments are available for vestibular migraine (VM) and few studies have assesses possibly effective rescue treat...

Determining the association between fibromyalgia, the gut microbiome and its biomarkers: A systematic review.

Mar 23, 2020

The association between fibromyalgia and irritable bowel syndrome is well-established. Alterations in the composition and diversity of the gut microbiome in irritable bowel syndrome have been reported...

The method simulating spontaneous pain in patients with nociplastic pain using rats with fibromyalgia-like condition.

Mar 23, 2020

The method shown in this article simulates spontaneous pain in patients with nociplastic pain using rats; the measurement with this method could be related to better translation of analgesic efficacie...

Effects of exergames on heart rate variability of women with fibromyalgia: A randomized controlled trial.

Mar 23, 2020

The objective of the present manuscript was to evaluate the effects of 24-weeks exergame intervention on the heart rate variability (HRV) of women with fibromyalgia. First, 56 women with fibromyalgia ...

The contribution of motor commands to the perturbations induced by sensorimotor conflicts in fibromyalgia.

Mar 23, 2020

Individuals with pain report higher sensory disturbances during sensorimotor conflicts compared to pain-free individuals. In the pain field, it is frequently assumed that disturbances arise from a dis...

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