BACKGROUND An increasing number of people suffer from neck pain due to life style and prolonged use of computers. Research has revealed that myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) and the intramuscular innervation zone (IZ) are involved in neck pain. MTrPs are induced mainly by IZ dysfunction of the affected skeletal muscle and the 2 do not overlap in location. The question is whether injection trea...

BACKGROUND The authors hypothesized that intramuscular sevoflurane injection allows diagnostic differentiation between malignant hyperthermia-susceptible (MHS) and -nonsusceptible (MHN) pigs by measurement of intramuscular lactate and carbon dioxide partial pressure (PCO2), and that dantrolene reduces the sevoflurane-induced PCO2 increase. METHODS With approval of the local animal care commit...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy and safety of intramuscular meperidine injection with periprostatic nerve block (PNB) during transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy. METHODS This study was carried out from July 2010 to June 2012 at the First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China. This controlled, double-blinded, randomized study included 186 patients....

The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of different injection sites, i.e., the neck area and thigh muscle, on the pharmacokinetics of cefquinome in piglets following intramuscular (i.m.) injection. Cross-bred (Landrace × Duroc × Yorkshire) piglets were administered the same dose of cefquinome (2 mg/kg body weight) via intravenous injection and intramuscular injection into...

Intramuscular injection and intravenous are important routes of drug administration, which not only have a fast absorption rate, but also avoid the first pass effect drug. In 2009, Yangtze Pharmaceutical Group redeveloped Dezocine(13-Amino-5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12-octahydro-5-methyl-5,11-methanobenzocyclodecen-3-ol), molecular formula: C 16 H 23 NO, in form njection. Quickly, Dezocine becomes choice ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study is to assess both the approximate lethal dose and the single dose intramuscular injection toxicity of Danggui (Angelica gigantis radix) pharmacopuncture (DGP) in Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats. METHODS The experiments were conducted at the good laboratory practice (GLP) laboratory, Biotoxtech Co., which is a laboratory approved by the ministry of food and drug sa...

cycloguanil pamoate was intramuscularly injected into semi-immune people living in the hyper-endemic malarias area. the results showed that a single dose of cycloguanil pamoate by intramuscular injection together with an oral dose of chloroquine, 10 mg/kg body weight, suppressed p. falciparum for at least 3 months and p. vivax for 5 months in bandar abbas, southern iran.

BACKGROUND Recent international guidelines recommend intra-articular corticosteroid injections for patients with hip osteoarthritis who have moderate to severe pain and do not respond satisfactorily to oral analgesic/anti-inflammatory agents. Of the five available randomized controlled trials, four showed positive effects with respect to pain reduction. However, intra-articular injection in the...

BACKGROUND Inhibition of the binding of Bacillus anthracis protective antigen (PA) to its cellular receptor can abrogate the downstream toxin-mediated deleterious effects of the anthrax toxin. A fully human monoclonal antibody against B. anthracis PA, PAmAb, was previously shown to provide a survival advantage in rabbit and monkey models of inhalational anthrax. METHODS A randomized, single-b...

BACKGROUND The optimization of snakebite management and the use of antivenom depend greatly on the knowledge of the venom's composition as well as its pharmacokinetics. To date, however, pharmacokinetic reports on cobra venoms and their toxins are still relatively limited. In the present study, we investigated the pharmacokinetics of Naja sumatrana (Equatorial spitting cobra) venom and its majo...