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Chronic non-cancer pain management - insights from Australian general practitioners: a qualitative descriptive study.

Jan 23, 2023

The study explored the experiences and perceptions of GPs regarding the management of chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP). Specifically, participants were asked to identify perceived enablers and barriers ...

Use of the Global Alignment and Proportion score to predict postoperative health-related quality of life in adult spinal deformity surgery.

Jan 23, 2023

The purpose of this study was to validate the Global Alignment and Proportion (GAP) score as a predictor of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes for patients undergoing adult spinal deformi...

Therapeutic effects of kefir peptides on adjuvant-induced arthritis in rats through anti-inflammation and downregulation of matrix metalloproteinases.

Jan 23, 2023

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease. Its pathological features are synovial inflammation, bone erosion, and joint structural damages. Our previous studies have shown that kefir p...

Deep eutectic solvents-Hydrogels for the topical management of rheumatoid arthritis.

Jan 23, 2023

Deep eutectic solvents (DES) have demonstrated their ability to facilitate skin penetrability of rigid nanoparticles (NPs). Here, we reported a feasible and simple transdermal delivery strategy using ...

Optimized electrical stimulation of C-nociceptors in humans based on the chronaxie of porcine C-fibers.

Jan 23, 2023

Classically, to electrically excite C-nociceptors, rectangular pulses are used with a duration close to the estimated chronaxie of C-fibres (about 2 ms). Recent results using slow depolarizing stimuli...

Head and neck pain drawing area correlates with higher psychosocial burden but not with joint dysfunction in temporomandibular disorders: a cross-sectional study.

Jan 23, 2023

Head and neck pain drawings have been introduced as part of the diagnostic gold standard for temporomandibular disorders (TMD). We aimed to quantify the spatial extent of pain in TMD patients and to a...

A retrospective cohort study of cerebrovascular fibromuscular dysplasia.

Jan 16, 2023

Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) is a rare vasculopathy for which limited data are available particularly from Europe. Our aim was to study the clinical characteristics of a regional cohort of carotid fi...

Sleep and Sleep Complaints in Juvenile Fibromyalgia Syndrome.

Jan 16, 2023

To investigate sleep quality in juvenile fibromyalgia syndrome (JFS) and its impact on the global burden of the disease.Consecutive JFS patients who performed full-night polysomnography (PSG) were inc...

Comparative Safety Analysis of Opioid Agonist Treatment in Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorder: A Population-Based Study.

Jan 16, 2023

Receipt of opioid agonist treatment during early and late pregnancy for opioid use disorder may relate to varying perinatal risks. We aimed to assess the effect of time-varying prenatal exposure to�...

On-Site Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Paracetamol Analgesic in Non-Invasively Collected Saliva for Personalized Medicine.

Jan 16, 2023

Paracetamol or acetaminophen is the main non-opioid analgesic recommended for mild pain by the World Health Organization (WHO) analgesic ladder. However, the high levels used of paracetamol are associ...

Uveitis in children: Epidemiological, clinical and prognostic characteristics.

Jan 16, 2023

The purpose of this study is to describe the characteristics and prognostic factors of pediatric uveitis in a French university referral hospital.We performed a retrospective study of all cases of all...

Nutritional status in rheumatoid arthritis.

Jan 16, 2023

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease affecting the joints. It has been suggested that obesity increases the likelihood of RA development lowers the chance to achieve ...

Somatostatin Neurons from Periaqueductal Gray to Medulla Facilitate Neuropathic Pain in Male Mice.

Jan 16, 2023

Projections from the periaqueductal gray (PAG) to the rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM) are known to engage in descending pain modulation, but how the neural substrates of the PAG-RVM projections con...

Activation of protease-activated receptor-1 causes chronic pain in lupus-prone mice via suppressing spinal glial glutamate transporter function and enhancing glutamatergic synaptic activity.

Jan 16, 2023

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an unpredictable autoimmune disease where the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissues in many parts of the body. Chronic pain is one of the most f...

Demographic trends associated with substance use disorder and risk for adverse obstetric outcomes with cannabis and opioid use disorders.

Jan 09, 2023

Substance use disorders (SUDs) are increasing in the obstetric population, vary with demographic characteristics, and are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Cannabis use disorder and opioid u...

Aftereffects of alpha transcranial alternating current stimulation over the primary sensorimotor cortex on cortical processing of pain.

Jan 09, 2023

Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is believed to modulate brain oscillations in a frequency-specific manner. Given the correlation between sensorimotor α-oscillations and pain perce...

A double-blind phase II randomized controlled trial of an online cognitive bias modification for interpretation program with and without psychoeducation for people with chronic pain.

Jan 09, 2023

Cognitive bias modification for interpretation (CBM-I) is an effective intervention for anxiety, but there is only a single trial in people with chronic pain. The aim of this randomized controlled tri...

Lonp1 and Sig-1R contribute to the counteraction of ursolic acid against ochratoxin A-induced mitochondrial apoptosis.

Jan 02, 2023

Ochratoxin A (OTA), a secondary fungal metabolite with nephrotoxicity, is widespread in numerous kinds of feeds and foodstuffs. Ursolic acid (UA), a water-insoluble pentacyclic triterpene acid, exists...

Influence of constant rate infusions of fentanyl alone or in combination with lidocaine and ketamine on the response to surgery and postoperative pain in isoflurane anesthetized dogs undergoing unilateral mastectomy: a randomized clinical trial.

Jan 02, 2023

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of constant rate infusions (CRI) of fentanyl alone or combined with lidocaine and ketamine (FLK), on physiological parameters, isoflurane requirements ...

Long-term Evaluation of Spinal Cord Stimulation in Patients With Painful Diabetic Polyneuropathy: An Eight-to-Ten-Year Prospective Cohort Study.

Jan 02, 2023

This study aimed to evaluate the long-term effects of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) in patients with painful diabetic polyneuropathy (PDPN).This prospective cohort study was the eight-to-ten-year foll...

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