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Comparison of Local and Spinal Anesthesia for Inguinal Hernia Repair

Journal of Health Science and Medical Research (JHSMR), 2010
Inguinal hernial repair is one of the most common surgical procedures in a general surgical practice. The usual anesthetic methods for elective inguinal herniorrhaphy are spinal or local anesthesia.
Bunlue Chowdok, Araya Khaimook
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Cryo-EM structure of small-molecule agonist bound delta opioid receptor-Gi complex enables discovery of biased compound

Nature Communications
Delta opioid receptor (δOR) plays a pivotal role in modulating human sensation and emotion. It is an attractive target for drug discovery since, unlike Mu opioid receptor, it is associated with low risk of drug dependence.
Lin Cheng, Zhuang Miao, Sicen Liu, Zhe Li, Hong Fu, Chanjuan Xu, Shilong Hu, Chang Zhao, Yuxuan Liu, Tiantian Zhao, Wencheng Liu, Heli Wang, Runduo Liu, Wei Yan, Xiangdong Tang, Jianfeng Liu, Zhenhua Shao, Bowen Ke   +17 more
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Self‐Feeding of Engineered Tissues via Controlled Glucose Release Facilitates Survival and Vascularization of Living Implants

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Engineering living matter has great clinical potential to deliver functional replacement organs. However, clinical translation remains hampered by the current inability to maintain viability of clinically relevant‐sized constructs. During the pre‐vascular phase, implants rely on nutrient diffusion for survival, which is insufficient at ...
Melvin Gurian, Iris E. Allijn, Laura Veenendaal, Nicole Bassous, Su Ryon Shin, Jeroen Leijten   +5 more
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Gold Nanoclusters as Dual Agents for Engineering Tumor Vascular Leakiness and Performing Photothermal Therapy

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Many cancer nanotherapeutics, while potent, suffer from the inability to escape from the tumor vasculature, especially in the absence of endothelial permeability. In this work, ultrasmall gold nanoclusters could engineer nanomaterials induced endothelial leakiness (NanoEL) and harness strong NIR induced photothermal characteristics to suppress tumor ...
Nengyi Ni, Kuoran Xing, Bihan Zhang, Baoteng Wang, Yinglu Chen, Jianping Xie, Xiao Sun, Jinping Wang, David Tai Leong   +8 more
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A Prospective Evaluation of Opioid Utilization After Upper-Extremity Surgical Procedures: Identifying Consumption Patterns and Determining Prescribing Guidelines. [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Although adequate management of postoperative pain with oral analgesics is an important aspect of surgical procedures, inadvertent overprescribing can lead to excess availability of opioids in the community for potential diversion.
Abboudi, Jack, Ilyas, Asif M, Jones, Christopher M., Kim, Nayoung, Kirkpatrick, William, Leinberry, Charles, Liss, Frederic, Lutsky, Kevin F F., Maltenfort, Mitchell, Matzon, Jonas L., Wang, Mark L.   +10 more
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Phase transitions in biological membranes

, 2018
Native membranes of biological cells display melting transitions of their lipids at a temperature of 10-20 degrees below body temperature. Such transitions can be observed in various bacterial cells, in nerves, in cancer cells, but also in lung ...
A Blicher, A Blicher, A Gonzalez-Perez, A Gonzalez-Perez, A Hac, A Punnia-Moorthy, AG Lee, AL Hodgkin, AL Hodgkin, B Lautrup, D Johnston, D Papahadjopoulos, DB Mountcastle, DP Kharakoz, E London, EF DeLong, FH Johnson, FH Johnson, GH Kim, GS Manning, H Ebel, H Kamaya, H Kamaya, H Kamaya, H Träuble, HJ Galla, HM Seeger, HM Seeger, I Tasaki, J Gallaher, J Marmur, JE Rothman, JE Rothman, JLCM Vossenberg van de, JM Ritchie, JR Hazel, JR Hazel, JR Trudell, K Græsbøll, K Iwasa, K Iwasa, K Simons, KA Zecchi, KR Laub, L Onsager, LD Mosgaard, LD Mosgaard, LO Ingram, M Gudmand, M Moldovan, MC Sabra, MJ Halsey, MJ Pringle, OG Mouritsen, P Grabitz, PF Almeida, PL Privalov, R Böckmann, R Ravindra, R Winter, RS Cantor, RS Cantor, RW Glaser, S Johnson, SV Avery, T Heimburg, T Heimburg, T Heimburg, T Heimburg, T Heimburg, T Heimburg, T Heimburg, T Horishita, Tian Wang, UR Pedersen, Y Kaminoh, Y Zuo   +76 more
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A Bioresorbable Neural Interface for On‐Demand Thermal Pain Block

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Bioresorbable, implantable neural electronics provide dynamic, on‐demand thermal modulation of peripheral nerves for safe, drug‐free pain relief. A microscale thin‐film heater and temperature sensor embedded within biodegradable encapsulants enable precise temperature control via real‐time feedback.
Jeonghwan Park, Hak‐Young Ahn, Minho Seong, Taehoon Kim, Yulin Zhou, Yameng Xu, Jaehee Lee, Ritika Raj Menghani, Yujin Choi, Minsu Park, Nadir Muzaffar, Youngeun Lee, Seung Gi Seo, Jong Uk Kim, Sang Min Won, Jahyun Koo, Elena Aprea, Taeyeon Kim, Ying Yan, Matthew R. MacEwan, Wilson Z. Ray, Raudel Avila, Geumbee Lee, John A. Rogers   +23 more
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Spatial transcriptomics and single-nucleus RNA sequencing reveal a transcriptomic atlas of adult human spinal cord

eLife
Despite the recognized importance of the spinal cord in sensory processing, motor behaviors, and neural diseases, the underlying organization of neuronal clusters and their spatial location remain elusive.
Donghang Zhang, Yali Chen, Yiyong Wei, Hongjun Chen, Yujie Wu, Lin Wu, Jin Li, Qiyang Ren, Changhong Miao, Tao Zhu, Jin Liu, Bowen Ke, Cheng Zhou   +12 more
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The free energy of biomembrane and nerve excitation and the role of anesthetics

, 2018
In the electromechanical theory of nerve stimulation, the nerve impulse consists of a traveling region of solid membrane in a liquid environment. Therefore, the free energy necessary to stimulate a pulse is directly related to the free energy difference ...
Heimburg, Thomas, Jackson, Andrew D., Music, Tea, Wang, Tian   +3 more
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Coagulative Granular Hydrogels with an Enzyme Catalyzed Fibrin Network for Endogenous Tissue Regeneration

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Coagulative granular hydrogels are composed of packed thrombin‐functionalized microgels that catalyze the conversion of fibrinogen into a secondary fibrin network, filling the interstitial voids. This bio‐inspired approach stabilizes the biomaterial to match the robustness of bulk hydrogels without compromising injectability, mimicking the initial ...
Zhipeng Deng, Camila B. Tovani, Simona Bianco, Gianni Comandini, Aya Elghajiji, Mina Aleemardani, Roxana Moscalu, Jeremie Zappia, Bianca Fernandes, Olivia Annett, Chrissy L. Hammond, Jason Wong, Dave J. Adams, Fabrizio Scarpa, Michael R. Whitehouse, Annela M. Seddon, James P. K. Armstrong   +16 more
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