Managing Breakthrough Pain
Genetics of Salt-Sensitive Hype ...
The assessment of salt sensitivity of blood pressure is difficult because of the lack of universal consensus on definition. Regardless of the variab ...
Asymptomatic Sleep Abnormalitie ...
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized bymotor, cognitive, and psychiatric disturbance. In this article, we us ...
Hypocretin and Its Emerging Rol ...
The neuropeptides hypocretin-1 and -2 (orexin A and B) are critical in the regulation of arousal and maintenance of wakefulness. Understanding the r ...
Effects of Nutrition and Alcoho ...
It is well established that excessive consumption of high-fat diets results in obesity. However, the consequences of obesity on skeletal development ...
Osteopenia: A Diagnostic and Th ...
We discussed whether we are able to select a subgroup of patients with osteopenia having a high fracture risk, in which anti-osteoporotic drug treat ...
Managing Breakthrough Pain
Breakthrough cancer pain (BTcP) has been defined as a transitory increase in pain intensity on a baseline pain of moderate intensity in patients on ...
Sarcoidosis and Small-fiber Neu ...
Chronic pain is one of themost commonly reported symptoms among sarcoidosis patients. Not only does it significantly affect quality of life, but it ...
Update on Medication-overuse He ...
Medication-overuse headache (MOH) is a syndrome that can develop in migraineurs after overuse of antimigraine drugs, including opiates and triptans ...
Management of Chronic Pelvic Pa ...
Chronic pelvic pain is a complex condition that requires evaluation of the reproductive, gastrointestinal, urologic, musculoskeletal, psychological, ...
Meta-structure Issues for the D ...
The question of how to optimally organize into chapters and label the different categories of mental disorders is an important one for DSM-5 and ICD ...
Placebo Response: A Considerati ...
Placebo effects are a potentially inherent element in all treatment responses, and as such, they play a critical role in determining what is “therap ...
Update on Repetitive Transcrani ...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic, disabling disorder. Ten percent of patients remain treatment refractory despite several treatments ...
The Muscular Dystrophies: Disti ...
Over the past decade, the enigmatic pathogenic mechanisms of the most common forms of muscular dystrophy have been defined. In this report, the mole ...
New Imaging Modalities in Bone
The digital era has witnessed an exponential growth in bone imaging as new modalities and analytic techniques improve the potential for noninvasive ...
Emerging Treatment Options for ...
Benign prostatic obstruction (BPO) affects an increasing number of men with age. It can cause troublesome lower urinary tract symptoms, can have a n ...
Overactive Bladder and Outlet O ...
Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), overactive bladder, (OAB), and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) are very commonly experienced in men. The ma ...
A Role for Intestinal Alkaline ...
Background and Aims Intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP) is a gut mucosal defense factor known to dephosphorylate lipopolysaccharide (LPS); however ...
5-Aminosalicylic Acid (5-ASA) C ...
Background No studies have evaluated the effectiveness of 5-ASA against oxidative DNA damage in experimental models of diversion colitis. Aim To ev ...
Evidence for Enhanced Cytoprote ...
Background In the clinical field, increasing incidence of small intestinal ulcers associated with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) has b ...
Effects of Ischemia and Reperfu ...
Purpose We investigated the effects of ischemia/reperfusion in the intestine (I/R-i) on purine receptor P2X2- immunoreactive (IR) neurons of the rat ...
Correlation Analysis Between Ge ...
Background Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is caused by fat metabolism disorders and thereby abnormal or excessive accumulation of fat in h ...
The Effect of Exopolysaccharide ...
Background Oxidative stress plays a role in disease initiation and progression in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and manipulation of this pathway ...
Comparison of Endoscopic and Cl ...
Background A proportion of Barrett’s esophagus (BE) and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) displays familial aggregation, known as familial Barrett’s e ...
Abnormal Small Intestinal Perme ...
Background Though tropical sprue (TS) is common in tropics, studies on small intestinal permeability (SIP) in TS are scant. Method SIP was evaluate ...
The Role of N-Acetyltransferase ...
Background and Purpose Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) consists of ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), which are complex genetic diso ...