Imbalances in the opposing actions of sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves controlling the heart enhance risk for arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death after myocardial infarction (MI).
John D. Tompkins +4 more
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The carotid body as a therapeutic target for the treatment of sympathetically mediated diseases [PDF]
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Abdala, Ana P +13 more
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Background Migraine is a common primary headache disorder with different treatment modalities emerging as ultrasound guided peripheral nerve blocks. We compared the efficacy and safety of ultrasound guided bilateral sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) block ...
Nourhan Abdelmohsen Taha +6 more
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The spleen: a hub connecting nervous and immune systems in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases [PDF]
Metabolic disorders have been identified as major health problems affecting a large portion of the world population. In addition, obesity and insulin resistance are principal risk factors for the development of cardiovascular diseases.
Carnevale, Daniela +3 more
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Trigeminal neuralgia - diagnosis and treatment [PDF]
Introduction Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is characterized by touch-evoked unilateral brief shock-like paroxysmal pain in one or more divisions of the trigeminal nerve. In addition to the paroxysmal pain, some patients also have continuous pain.
Bendtsen, Lars +3 more
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Intravenous Regional Block with Phentolamine in the Treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome [PDF]
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a variety of painful conditions following injury which appears regionally having a distal predominance of abnormal findings.
Hooshang Shahriyari +4 more
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Blockade of the Proximal Pancreatic C Fiber Enhances Insulin Sensitivity in Rats
Numerous reports have been published on the putative mechanisms of development of insulin resistance in diabetes mellitus. However, no unified view has been established yet, especially in regard to involvement of the nervous system in the regulation of ...
Masataka Kusunoki +4 more
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Real-time imaging of the medullary circuitry involved in the generation of spontaneous muscle sympathetic nerve activity in awake human subjects [PDF]
In order to understand the central neural processes involved in blood pressure regulation we recorded muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) via a tungsten microelectrode in the common peroneal nerve while performing functional Magnetic Resonance ...
Luke Henderson, Vaughan Macefield
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Fast glycorrhachia and cerebrospinal fluid protein as predictors of sensory block in anesthesia with subarachnoid Ropivacaine [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Identify if glycorrhachia and cerebrospinal fluid protein could influence the time of sensory block to T10, the duration and the metameric block's level, after a standard dose of Ropivacaine. METHODS: 80 patients, ASA I - III undergoing to
COLLINI, Saul +5 more
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11th European Headache Federation Congress jointly with 31st Congress of the Italian Society for the Study of Headaches : Rome, Italy. 01-03 December 2017 [PDF]
. Aims of the study were explore the relationship between peripheral chromatic and central visual dysfunction evaluating also the presence of functional receptor impairment in patients with migraine, with and without aura examined ...
Brighina, F +5 more
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