Paraumbilical Hernia What Is Hernia? A hernia usually occurs when an internal organ of an individual’s body squeezes or pushes through a weak spot surrounding the muscle or fascia (connective tissue) tissue. It generally develops in the hips and chest. What Is Paraumbilical Hernia? A hernia...
Adiponectin circulates in relatively high concentrations in blood and is easily measured. However, the use of adiponectin measurements has so far been confined to clinical trials and has not yet spread into clinical practice. Nevertheless, the potential to use adiponectin as a biologic risk marker c...
Sensations of cold in the head, such as the pain associated withbrain freeze, are typically the result of disruptions in blood flow. Brain freeze is a benigntype of headachewhen you drink or eat something very cold too fast. As the temperature around blood vessels in the mouth drops, the ...
The goal of Parkinson's treatments is to reduce symptoms such as stiffness, uncontrollable shaking, and slow movements. Medication is the mainstay treatment, especially levodopa, a drug that increases dopamine levels in the brain. Drugs like dopamine agonists, amantadine, or anticholinergics may also...
Understanding the interactions between intestinal microbiota, chronic inflammation, cellular stress, and aging is essential to developing therapies aimed at reducing inflammation and slowing age-related diseases in PWH. In this review, we discuss critical knowledge gaps and highlight the therapeutic potentia...
It is nowadays a common practice to “work without sleep and catch up later.” It is not a good idea to keep up with sleep deficit. In recent years, several reports have shown that the consequences of chronic sleep loss are not reversible. It may...
Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors have been demonstrated to be beneficial in animal models of neurodegenerative diseases. Such results were mainly associated with the epigenetic modulation caused by HDACs, especially those from class I, via chromatin
The athlete is instructed to read numbers sequentially from left to right as quickly as possible without making mistakes. Time required for each card as well as uncorrected errors are recorded. From Neurology. 2011 Apr 26; 76(17): 1456–1462, doi: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31821184c9. Copyright ...
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At the early onset of the 20th century, several studies already reported that the gray matter was implicated in the histopathology of multiple sclerosis (MS). However, as white matter pathology long received predominant attention in this disease, and his