AN INNOVATIVE NONPHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTION COMBINED WITH INTRAVENOUS PATIENT-CONTROLLED ANALGESIA INCREASED PATIENT GLOBAL IMPROVEMENT IN PAIN AND SATISFACTION AFTER MAJOR SURGERY

An innovative nonpharmacological intervention combined with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia increased patient global improvement in pain and satisfaction after major surgery

Chia-Chun Chuang,1 Chien-Ching Lee,1,2 Li-Kai Wang,1 Bor-Shyh Lin,2 Wen-Ju Wu,1 Chung-Han Ho,3 Jen-Yin Chen1,4 1Department of Anesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, 2Department of Imaging and Biomedical Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, 3Department of Medical Research, Chi Mei Medical Center, 4Department of the Senior Citizen Service

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Upregulation of glycosaminoglycan synthesis by Neurotropin in nucleus pulposus cells via stimulation of chondroitin sulfate N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 1: A new approach to attenuation of intervertebral disc degeneration.

It is suggested that most cases of low back pain are related to degeneration of intervertebral discs.Disc degeneration is a chronic and progressive disease and the search for effective medical treatments continues.Neurotropin is widely used Television VHS Tapes in Japan and China to treat low back pain and neck-shoulder-arm syndrome.The present stu

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SECRET domain of variola virus CrmB protein can be a member of poxviral type II chemokine-binding proteins family

Wreath Abstract Background Variola virus (VARV) the causative agent of smallpox, eradicated in 1980, have wide spectrum of immunomodulatory proteins to evade host immunity.Recently additional biological activity was discovered for VARV CrmB protein, known to bind and inhibit tumour necrosis factor (TNF) through its N-terminal domain homologous to c

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