Objective(s): Intracerebroventricular injection of orexin-A (hypocretin-1) antagonist has been shown to inhibit stress-induced analgesia. However the locations of central sites that may mediate these effects have not been totally demonstrated. This study was performed to investigate the role of rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM) orexin receptor 1 in stress-induced analgesia (SIA). Materials and...

We analysed the execution of multijoint pointing movements in humans while weight or spring loads were applied to the pointing hand. Visual feedback on arm and hand position was excluded. Movement paths, final positions, and normalized velocity profiles were found to be load-independent, except for the very first movement after a load change. With increasing size of a weight load movement veloc...

this article engages with debates about the conceptualisation and practical challenges of patient and public involvement (ppi) in health and social care services. policy in this area in england has shifted numerous times but increasingly a consumerist discourse seems to override more democratic ideas concerning the relationship between citizens and public services. recent policy change in engla...

introduction: the wilson disease is an autosomal recessive disease in which the liver, central nervous system, eyes, blood and other parts of the body involved. timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment of the disease requires awareness of the clinical presentations of this disease in children.methods: this case series study included 62 patients with wilson disease who admitted to children&apo...

BACKGROUND Reactive oxygen species (ROS) may mediate pressure overload-induced myocardial hypertrophy. NADPH oxidase may be involved in this process, because its expression and activity are upregulated by pressure overload and because myocardial hypertrophy caused by a subpressor infusion of angiotensin is attenuated in mice deficient in the gp91phox catalytic subunit of NADPH oxidase. METHOD...

background: the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and viral load of epstein–barr virus (ebv) and human herpesvirus‑6 (hhv‑6) in different histopathologic grades of oral squamous cell carcinoma (oscc). methods: forty‑five formalin‑fixed paraffin‑embedded tissue section of oscc patients were analyzed by quantitative real‑time polymerase chain reaction for detection of ebv and hhv‑...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) appear to be involved in several neurodegenerative disorders. We tested the hypothesis that oxidative stress could have a role in the hippocampal neurodegeneration observed in temporal lobe epilepsy induced by pilocarpine. We first determined the spatio-temporal pattern of ROS generation, by means of detection with dihydroethidium oxidation, in the CA1 and CA3 area...