Investigación y Educación en Enfermería, 2012 En este artículo se discute el sentido que debe tener la investigación como herramienta de aproximación a la realidad cotidiana y del papel del investigador como agente de cambio social.Neste artigo se discute o sentido que deve ter a investigação como ...
Johan Sebastián Lopera Valle
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Thyroxine treatment in patients with symptoms of hypothyroidism but thyroid function tests within the reference range: randomised double blind placebo controlled crossover trial [PDF]
, 2001 OBJECTIVES: To determine whether thyroxine treatment is effective in patients with symptoms of hypothyroidism but with thyroid function tests within the reference range, and to investigate the effect of thyroxine treatment on psychological and physical ...
Davidson, K.M. +6 more
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Confusing placebo effect with natural history in epilepsy: A big data approach
Annals of Neurology, 2015 For unknown reasons, placebos reduce seizures in clinical trials in many patients. It is also unclear why some drugs showing statistical superiority to placebo in one trial may fail to do so in another.
D. Goldenholz +4 more
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Neural Patterns of Social Pain in the Brain‐Wide Representations Across Social Contexts
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Empathy arises from both physiological and social pain, yet their shared and context‐specific neural mechanisms remain unclear. Combining fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis, this study decodes overlapping empathy networks and distinct representations for social exclusion versus separation.
Xiaodong Zhang +11 more
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Zdravniški Vestnik, 2012 The paper presents psychobiological mechanisms underlying the placebo effect, and research approaches to determining the effect of placebo on the outcome of treatment.
Mara Bresjanac
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The effect of 14 weeks of vitamin D3 supplementation on antimicrobial peptides and proteins in athletes [PDF]
, 2016 Heavy training is associated with increased respiratory infection risk and antimicrobial proteins are important in defence against oral and respiratory tract infections.
Cheng-Shiun He +9 more
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Targeting miRNA‐1a and miRNA‐15b: A Novel Combinatorial Strategy to Drive Adult Cardiac Regeneration
Advanced Science, EarlyView.The article explores a novel therapeutic strategy for cardiac regeneration by targeting miRNA‐1a and miRNA‐15b. Combinatorial inhibition of miR‐1a and miR‐15b enhances cardiomyocyte proliferation, improves heart function, and reduces fibrosis in myocardial infarction models.
Ting Yuan +16 more
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Causal diagrams, the placebo effect, and the expectation effect
International Journal of General Medicine, 2013 Eyal Shahar,1 Doron J Shahar2 1Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, 2Department of Mathematics, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Abstract: Using causal diagrams, a formal ...
Shahar E, Shahar DJ
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Non-Chemical Distant Cellular Interactions as a potential confounder of Cell Biology Experiments
Frontiers in Physiology, 2014 Distant cells can communicate with each other through a variety of methods. Two such methods involve electrical and/or chemical mechanisms. Non-chemical, distant cellular interactions may be another method of communication that cells can use to modify ...
Ashkan eFarhadi
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Critical appraisal and update on the clinical utility of agomelatine, a melatonergic agonist, for the treatment of major depressive disease in adults [PDF]
, 2009 This article describes the pharmacology of the novel atypical antidepressant drug agomelatine, critically reviews and evaluates its clinical use for the treatment of major depression, and suggests areas for further research.
Howland, RH
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