OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the prospective influence of multisite pain, depression, anxiety, self-rated health and pain-related disability on recovery from chronic low back pain (LBP). SETTING The data is derived from the second (1995-1997) and third (2006-2008) wave of the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) in Norway. PARTICIPANTS The study population comprises 4484 women a...

The homogeneous reconstructed evolutionary process is a birth-death process without observed extinct lineages. Each species evolves independently with the same diversification rate-speciation rate, λ(t), and extinction rate, μ(t)-that may change over time. The process is commonly applied to model species diversification where the data are reconstructed phylogenies, e.g. trees estimated from pre...

UNLABELLED Background. Enterococcal peritonitis is a serious complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD), although reports of this condition in the literature are exceedingly limited. Methods. The frequency, predictors, treatment and clinical outcomes of enterococcal peritonitis were investigated in all 4675 patients receiving PD in Australia between 1 October 2003 and 31 December 2006. Results. O...

background: the failure of regeneration after spinal cord injury (sci) has been attributed to axonal demyelination and neuronal death. cellular replacement and white matter regeneration are both necessary for sci repair. in this study, we evaluated the co-transplantation of olfactory ensheathing cells (oec) and embryonic stem (es) cell-derived motor neurons (esmn) on contused sci. methods: oec ...

the pathology of spinal cord injury (sci) comprises multiple processes characterized by extensive cell death and glial scar formation, which together limits axonal regeneration. in particular, variations in chronic demyelination of the lesion have been found to be largely independent of injury intensity, suggesting a secondary pathologic origin. this chronic demyelination results in progressive...