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Outcomes in Long-term Opioid Tapering and Buprenorphine Transition: A Retrospective Clinical Data Analysis.

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...

Association of Alcohol Screening Scores With Adverse Mental Health Conditions and Substance Use Among US Adults.

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...

Surgical intervention for chronic migraine headache: A systematic review.

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....

Time trends of major headache diagnoses and predictive factors. Data from three Nord-Trøndelag health surveys.

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...

Pannexin-1 in the CNS: emerging concepts in health and disease.

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...

Unrecognized challenges of treating status migrainosus: An observational study.

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 ...

Hypogravity reduces trunk admittance and lumbar muscle activation in response to external perturbations.

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...

Modulation of the extrinsic tongue muscle activity in response to bronchopulmonary C-fiber activation following mid-cervical contusion in the rat.

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...

Gastrointestinal vascular permeability changes following spinal cord injury.

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...

Prevalence of chronic chikungunya and associated risks factors in the French West Indies (La Martinique): A prospective cohort study.

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...

Prognostic role of blood KL-6 in rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease.

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...

Histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) inhibitors as anticancer agents: A review.

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 ...

Dexmedetomidine inhibits the invasion, migration, and inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis fibroblast-like synoviocytes by reducing the expression of NLRC5.

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...

The Effect of Plasma Lipids and Lipid-Lowering Interventions on Bone Mineral Density: A Mendelian Randomization Study.

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...

Residency Setting Association With Resident Substance Use Disorder Training: A CERA Secondary Data Analysis.

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...

Investigation of inactive state κ opioid receptor homodimerization via single molecule microscopy using new antagonistic fluorescent probes.

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...

Medication overuse headache in 787 patients admitted for inpatient treatment over a period of 32 years.

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...

Cathodal tDCS Guided by Thermography as Adjunctive Therapy in Chronic Migraine Patients: A Sham-Controlled Pilot Study.

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...

The Efficacy of Topical Basil Essential Oil on Relieving Migraine Headaches: A Randomized Triple-Blind Study.

Mar 12, 2020

Complementary therapies have been increasingly used for the prevention and treatment of migraine so that there is a need for studies in this setting. This study sought to determine the effects of basi...

A Study of Clinical Features and Risk Factors of Self-Referring Emergency Department Headache Patients: A Comparison with Headache Center Outpatients.

Mar 12, 2020

Nonlife-threatening headaches account for 3% of emergency department (ED) admissions, with social and economic negative consequences. We aim to investigate clinical features and risk factors of nonlif...

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