The task was programmed using Presentation® software (Version 20.1, Neurobehavioral Systems, Inc., Berkeley, CA, www.neurobs.com). For each participant, a whole-body score was calculated as well as scores for the regions of interest (ROI) defined by the presence of pain experiences ...
Immunotherapy uses the body'simmune systemto combat diseases with precision and minimal harm by blocking molecules—called checkpoint inhibitors—likePD-L1 or CTLA-4that cancer cells use to turn off the immune systems. Checkpoint inhibitorsare aNobel prize-winning discovery and they're now one of ...
A fundamental concept in family systems theory is differentiation, defined as “the ability to be in emotional contact with others yet still autonomous in one’s emotional functioning.” The poorly differentiated person “lacks an emotional boundary between himself and others and lacks a ‘boundary’...
Also, other combined treatment approaches can be practical, such as using Nb-siRNA or CAR-T cell-based nanobodies [155,208]. CAR-T cell therapy as an independent method has achieved stunning therapeutic successes. This method increases the reactivity of their target tumor by blocking the immune...
Two popular systems are the Walsh pharyngitis criteria and the Centor criteria. According to Walsh, patients who tested positive for GAS presented with a significantly higher frequency of recent exposure to streptococcal infection, presence of pharyngeal exudate, enlarged or tender cervical nodes, and ...
In the evolutionary stages of this emerging technology we were confined to meticulous, time-consuming, expensive, and labor intensive methodologies for restoring balance to these delicate biological systems. Typically we would develop programs which addressed severe dietary changes coupled with intricate and...
Consequently, mitochondrial diseases are characterized by neurodegeneration. The nervous systems of affected individuals typically manifest selective vulnerability in distinct regions, ultimately producing distinct patterns of tissue damage. Symmetrical alterations in the basal ganglia and brainstem are a ...
Anemia is very common in people with AIDS because their immune systems * do not function normally and they are prone to infections. People who have diseases of their kidneys often develop anemia because the kidneys no longer respond to decreases in red blood cells by producing enough ...
solitarii (NTS) (Cai et al.1996). NTS contributes to immunomodulatory functions that regulate fever, breathing and autonomic efferent activity to the cardiovascular system, and other peripheral systems (Zoccal et al.2014). Impairment of the immune responses by the brain has also been identified ...
of balance, of acceleration and deceleration, of where we are in space (what is known as proprioception), of time passing, of appetite. Altogether (and depending on how you count them) we have as many as thirty-three systems within us that let us know where we are and how we are ...