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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, Ellie Tanqueray, He C. S., James Teah, Jay Rudland-Thomas, Jonathan Tang, Kirsty Brown, Michael Gleeson, Stephen Renwick, William D. Fraser   +9 more
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Placebo and the law of identification

Frontiers in Psychiatry
Thousands of essays and studies have been published on placebo and nocebo. Yet, despite this plethora of information, we are not much closer to a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental mechanism producing placebo and nocebo effects than we were ...
Steve F. Bierman, Andrew Weil, Stephen Dahmer   +2 more
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Suggestive Preparation of Patients using Intravenous Ketoprofen as a Part of Postoperative Pain Management in Elective Abdominal Surgery

Acta Clinica Croatica, 2023
Suggestive preparation before surgery may have a placebo effect and can reduce perioperative consumption of analgesics. A total of 77 adult patients undergoing elective cholecystectomy and hernioplasty were included in this prospective study.
Anja Petričević, Dino Budrovac, Ivana Lenz, Slavica Kvolik   +3 more
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DHA-rich oil modulates the cerebral haemodynamic response to cognitive tasks in healthy young adults: a near IR spectroscopy pilot study [PDF]

, 2011
The impact of dietary n-3 PUFA on behavioural outcomes has been widely researched; however, very little attention has been given to their impact on brain functioning in physiological terms.
Jackson, Philippa, Kennedy, David, Reay, Jonathon, Scholey, Andrew   +3 more
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Drug*placebo interaction effect may bias clinical trials interpretation: hybrid balanced placebo and randomized placebo-controlled design

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2016
Background Conventional randomized placebo-controlled study design assumes the absence of drug*placebo interaction. We hypothesized the presence of such an interaction and that conventionally estimated drug effect might be biased.
Muhammad M. Hammami, Safa Hammami, Reem Al-Swayeh, Eman Al-Gaai, Faduma Abdi Farah, Sophia J. S. De Padua   +5 more
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Effects of zinc supplementation on cognitive function in healthy middle-aged and older adults: the ZENITH study [PDF]

, 2006
A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled design was employed to investigate the effects of Zn supplementation on cognitive function in 387 healthy adults aged 55–87 years. Several measures of visual memory, working memory, attention and reaction time
Andriollo-Sanchez, Maud, Coudray , Charles, Maylor, Elizabeth A., McConville, C. F. (Chris F.), Meunier, Nathalie, O'Connor, Jacqueline M., Polito, Angela, Secker, David L., Simpson, Ellen E. A., Stewart-Knox, Barbara   +9 more
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Improving adaptive response to negative stimuli through non-emotional working memory training

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023
People with high working memory (WM) capacity tend to respond proactively and experience a decrease in undesired emotions, implying the potential influence of WM training on emotional responses.
Quanshan Long, Linlin Yu, Yancheng Tang, Qing Li, Na Hu, Yan Gu, Antao Chen   +6 more
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Metformin for non-diabetic patients with coronary heart disease (the CAMERA study): a randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2009
<br>Background: Metformin reduces cardiovascular risk in patients with type 2 diabetes seemingly independent of lowering blood glucose concentration. We assessed the cardiovascular effects of metformin in individuals without type 2 diabetes.</br&
Eddy, Despres, Grundy, Bird, Seifarth, Nathan, Fontbonne, Charles, Holman, Kooy, Knowler, Alberti, Vergeer, Touboul, Liang, Spence, Levey, Meaney, Taylor, Selvin, Boussageon, Sjöström, Shyangdan, de Jager, Bots, Taylor, Boden, Huang, Baigent, Lorenz, Mazzone, Taylor, Lonn, Lexis   +33 more
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Neurobiology of Placebo Effect [PDF]

Psikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2013
Placebo is defined as a substance or method that has no specific effect on the condition being treated. Placebo leads to the state of contentment and shows its effects just like a drug by the pathways in the body. Various changes formed by plasebo on the
Suleyman Akarsu, Murat Erdem, Murat Gulsun   +2 more
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Exposing the evidence gap for complementary and alternative medicine to be integrated into science-based medicine. [PDF]

, 2011
When people who advocate integrating conventional science-based medicine with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are confronted with the lack of evidence to support CAM they counter by calling for more research, diverting attention to the ...
Hopayian, K, Power, M.
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