Pain General
Mar 13, 2020
TWIK-related K+ (TREK) channels are potential analgesic targets. However, selective activators for TREK with both defined action mechanism and analgesic ability for chronic pain have been lacking. Her...
Mar 13, 2020
The purpose of this quality improvement initiative was to demonstrate the value of having a clinical pain pharmacist in transitional perioperative pain management. Patients were referred to the pain p...
Mar 13, 2020
There are significant medical risks of long-term opioid therapy (LTOT) for chronic pain. Consequently, there is a need to identify effective interventions for the reduction of high-dose full-agonist o...
Mar 13, 2020
Alcohol screening may be associated with health outcomes that cluster with alcohol use (ie, alcohol-clustering conditions), including depression, anxiety, and use of tobacco, marijuana, and illicit dr...
Mar 13, 2020
Migraine is a global phenomenon, affecting more than 10% of the world's population. It is characterized by unilateral headache that may be accompanied by vomiting, nausea, photophobia and phonophobia....
Mar 13, 2020
The primary aim of this study was to investigate time trends of major headache diagnoses using cross-sectional data from two population-based health surveys. In addition, we aimed to perform a longitu...
Mar 13, 2020
Pannexin-1 (Panx1) is a large pore membrane channel with unique conduction properties ranging from non-selective ion permeability to the extracellular release of signalling molecules. The release of A...
Mar 13, 2020
Status migrainosus is a condition with limited epidemiological knowledge, and no evidence-based treatment guideline or rational-driven assessment of successful treatment outcome. To fill this gap, we ...
Mar 13, 2020
Reduced paraspinal muscle size and flattening of spinal curvatures have been documented after spaceflight. Assessment of trunk adaptations to hypogravity can contribute to develop specific countermeas...
Mar 13, 2020
This study was designed to investigate extrinsic tongue muscle activity in response to bronchopulmonary C-fiber activation following mid-cervical spinal contusion in the rat. Esophageal pressure and e...
Mar 13, 2020
Gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction is observed clinically after spinal cord injury (SCI) and contributes to the diminished long-term quality of life. Our study examined the acute and chronic GI vascula...
Mar 13, 2020
The chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging alphavirus that can cause chronic and potentially incapacitating rheumatic musculoskeletal disorders known as chronic chikungunya arthritis (CCA). We con...
Mar 13, 2020
Rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD) has a variable clinical course for which predicting prognosis is difficult. However, the role of blood biomarkers in RA-ILD is ill-de...
Mar 13, 2020
Among different Histone deacetylases (HDACs), histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) is an epigenetic drug target which is currently marked as a potential therapeutic strategy to combat various cancers. HDAC3 ...
Mar 13, 2020
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, autoimmune disease characterized by inflammatory synovitis, but its pathogenesis remains unclear. NLRC5 is a newly discovered member of the NLR family that is e...
Mar 13, 2020
Several epidemiological studies have reported a relationship between statin treatment and increased bone mineral density (BMD) and reduced fracture risk, but the mechanism underlying the purported rel...
Mar 12, 2020
As the opioid crisis worsens across the United States, the factors that impact physician training in management of substance use disorders become more relevant. A thorough understanding of these facto...
Mar 12, 2020
Opioid receptors (ORs) are among the best studied G protein-coupled receptors due to their involvement in neurological disorders and important role in pain treatment. Contrary to the classical monomer...
Mar 12, 2020
Definitions of medication overuse headache have changed over time.To evaluate the clinical characteristics of medication overuse headache patients admitted for inpatient withdrawal therapy over a peri...
Mar 12, 2020
To explore the efficacy of cathodal tDCS applied ipsilateral to the cold patch, as determined by thermographic evaluation, in the treatment of chronic migraine. Transcranial direct current stimulati...