Masakazu IWAMURA†, Seiichi UCHIDA††, Shinichiro OMACHI†††, and Koichi KISE† † Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University 1–1 Gakuencho, Sakai-shi, Osaka, 599–8531 Japan †† Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University Hakozaki 6-10-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi, 812-8581 Japan ††† Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University 6–6–05 Aoba, Aramaki...

introduction: different mechanisms are involved in stress induced analgesia (sia) and hyperalgesia (sih). repeated stress induces development of tolerance to sia. the role of hpa axis and gs signaling pathway in these effects are investigated in the current study. methods: forced swim stress (5 min/day) in water (20±1 ºc) was employed to adult male wistar rats (200-250 g). the nociceptive thres...

This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI holders.Further,we find that hospitals offering private insurees shorter waiting times as compared to SHI...

†Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Aoba 6-6-05, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, 980-8579 Japan E-mail: [email protected] ††Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai-shi, Osaka, 599-8531 Japan E-mail: {masa, kise}@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp †††Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University 744 Motooka, Nis...

Introduction: The formalin test is the most accepted chemical test for evaluation of nociception. It requires the injection of an adequate amount of formalin into the surface of the hindpaw. Formalin test consists of phase 1 (0-7 min) and phase 2 (15-60) in which the animal shows painful behaviors. These phases are separated with a quiet phase named interphase, in which the nociceptive respon...

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology, clinical manifestations and evolutive characteristics of pediatric patients with severe head injury (SHI). MATERIAL AND METHOD A review was made of the patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with SHI between July 1983 and December 2009. RESULTS Of the 389 patients with head injuries admitted to the PICU during the study period, ...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a highly lethal malignancy mostly because of metastasis, recurrence and acquired resistance to conventional chemotherapy. Arsenic trioxide (ATO) is successfully used to treat hematological malignancies, and has been proven to trigger apoptosis in HCC cells. However, the phase II trial evaluating the efficacy and toxicity of ATO in patients with HCC showed that ...