Sep 30, 2024

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the second most common fatal genetic disease in infancy. It is caused by deletion or intragenic pathogenic variants of the causative gene SMN1, which degenerates anter...

Sep 30, 2024

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic, autoimmune form of arthritis that is associated with a substantial humanistic and economic burden. Potential differences in patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and...

Sep 23, 2024

To assess patients' perceptions of their abdominal wall following extensile anterolateral approaches to the thoracolumbar spine for adult spinal deformity (ASD) using validated questionnaires.Adults w...

Sep 02, 2024

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by persistent inflammation leading to progressively worse disability. Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors and tumor necrosis...

Aug 05, 2024

This study aims to explore how cyclic loading influences creep response in the lumbar spine under combined flexion-compression loading.Ten porcine functional spinal units (FSUs) were mechanically test...

Aug 05, 2024

Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylserine (PS), along with phosphatidylcholine (PC), are key phospholipids (PL) in cell membranes and lipoproteins, prone to oxidative modifications. Their o...

Jul 29, 2024

Retrospective cohort study.Patients with IBD are at an increased risk for postoperative complications following surgery. The goal of this study is to investigate if inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is...

Jul 29, 2024

Numerous studies have linked the inflammatory pathway in psoriasis and metabolic disease, while no specific marker defined it. It is worth exploring the association of β2-microglobulin (β2M) in psor...

Jun 10, 2024

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are central to the functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis (HPG axis) and include the rhodopsin-like GPCR family members, neurokinin 3 receptor, kapp...

May 13, 2024

Nutritional assessment tools are used to predict outcomes in cancer. However, their utility in patients undergoing spinal surgery is unclear. This review examined if prognostic nutritional index (PNI)...

May 06, 2024

Our previous studies have shown the therapeutic efficacy of brucine dissolving-microneedles (Bru-DMNs) in treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Bru delivered via the DMNs can bypass some of the issues r...

Apr 29, 2024

Youngia japonica (L.) DC. is a polymorphic annual herb of the Asteraceae family. Although this plant originated in Asia, it is now world-widely distributed. In China, Y. japonica is used for edible or...

Mar 11, 2024

In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), there is an unmet need for more precise patient characterization through quantitative, ideally operator-independent, assessments of disease extent and severity....

Mar 11, 2024

Pain science education (PSE) provides people with an understanding of "how pain works" grounded in the biopsychosocial model of pain; it has been demonstrated to improve outcomes in musculoskeletal pa...

Mar 11, 2024

Secreted microRNAs (miRNAs) have been detected in various body fluids including the cerebrospinal fluid, yet their direct role in regulating synaptic transmission remains uncertain. We found that intr...

Mar 02, 2024

Despite being widely assumed, the worsening impact of unpredictability on pain perception remains unclear because of conflicting empirical evidence, and a lack of systematic integration of past resear...

Feb 26, 2024

This review aims to analyze the current data for the use of botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia (TN) and highlight the evidence for its efficacy and safety. Pain ma...

Feb 19, 2024

RNA helicases constitute a large protein family implicated in cellular RNA homeostasis and disease development. Here, we show that the RNA helicase IGHMBP2, linked to the neuromuscular disorder spinal...

Feb 19, 2024

The objectives were 1) to synthesize Quantitative Sensory Testing results in Cluster Headache (CH) patients and to identify somatosensory differences from healthy subjects (HS) and 2) between symptoma...

Feb 12, 2024

Breast cancer patients experience treatment-related pain from surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and long-term hormonal treatment, which can lead to poorer outcomes. Patient and family caregivers' psyc...