Mar 23, 2020

Pain is frequent in multiple sclerosis (MS) and includes different types, with neuropathic pain (NP) being most closely related to MS pathology. However, prevalence estimates vary largely, and causal ...

Mar 23, 2020

Dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons detect sensory inputs and are crucial for pain processing. They are often studied in vitro as dissociated cell cultures with the assumption that this reasonably repr...

Mar 23, 2020

Estrogen is one of the important regulators of the balance between bone formation and bone resorption that can modulate the levels and activity of certain growth factors and cytokines. In this study, ...

Mar 23, 2020

We aimed to assess the association between migraine headache and incident dementia.Migraine is a risk factor for white matter hyperintensities and ischemic stroke, which are both associated with incre...

Mar 20, 2020

To examine for latent patterns of SLE disease activity trajectories that associate with specific latent patterns of health-related quality of life (HRQoL; Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36), and to...

Mar 18, 2020

With spring almost here, it’s time to start barbecuing again. It may be one of our few diversions if we are still staying home. Before you get out that wire brush to clean off last year’s grill me...

Mar 13, 2020

Variables contributing to the outcome of buprenorphine treatment for opiate use disorder have been studied, including patient characteristics and the treatment approach applied. It is also valuable to...

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...