INTRODUCTION Guided treatments with nanoparticles and cold atmospheric plasma are a new approach in cancer therapy. Plasma is an ionized gas that has reactive and energetic particles and can be produced in the laboratory by different methods. MATERIAL AND METHODS Plasma jet therapy was employed to irradiate HCT-116 cells (human colorectal cancer cells) which were cultured in the presence of g...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Analgesic cooling technologies are firmly established in dermatologic laser therapy. We present cold air as a novel method of cooling and compare it with those methods that are already in use. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS We treated 166 patients with the diagnoses hypertrichosis, port wine stains, hemangioma, essential telangiectasias, and tattoos with different...

An investigation designed to assess and compare the effects of therapeutic forms of heat and cold on the pain threshold of the normal shoulder is described. Heat and cold were both found to raise the normal pain threshold significantly, the maximum effect occurring immediately following treatment. Ice therapy was more effective than heat, but following both forms of treatment the effect rapidly...

LIST OF OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED TO ACCOMPLISH EACH OBJECTIVE Objective 1: Develop an experimental, growth chamber temperature regime that can consistently cure Pierce’s Disease affected grapevines without causing unacceptable plant mortality. The results described in previous reports show that our field plants and cold chamber plants showed lower disease ratings and h...

PURPOSE The efficacy of a single exposure to 14 min of contrast water therapy (CWT) or cold-water immersion (COLD) on recovery postmatch in elite professional footballers was investigated. METHOD Twenty-four elite footballers participated in a match followed by 1 of 3 recovery interventions. Recovery was monitored for 48 h postmatch. Repeat-sprint ability (6 × 20-m), static and countermovemen...

Cold temperatures are associated with increased mortality and morbidity of cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. Cold exposure causes lung inflammation, pulmonary hypertension (PH), and right ventricle hypertrophy, but there is no effective therapy because of unknown mechanism. Here, we investigated whether RNA interference silencing of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α decreases cold-induced macro...

The effects of resveratrol, a polyphenolic phytoalexin present in red wine have been investigated on hyperalgesia and cold allodynia in streptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetic rats. Diabetes was induced by a single intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin (65mg/kg). After 4-weeks of STZ injection, diabetic rats exhibited a significant thermal hyperalgesia and cold allodynia along with increase...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We conducted a pilot feasibility and safety study of selective brain cooling with intra-arterial infusion of cold saline combined with endovascular reperfusion for acute ischemic stroke. METHODS Patients with large-vessel occlusion within 8 hours after symptom onset were enrolled. All patients received intra-arterial recanalization combined with infusion of cold isotoni...

OBJECTIVE The extraarticular symptoms are important in the pattern differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and the present study is designed in an attempt to find the associations between the extraarticular symptoms and American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Response in 194 cases of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with biomedicine. METHODS The data were obtained from a random...