Chronic widespread pain and fibromyalgia often coexist with temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and affects mostly women. Studies have shown lower pressure pain thresholds (PPT) in these patients indicating that hyperalgesia is involved. The aim for this study was to investigate the effect of topical anesthesia on PPT for jaw muscles in patients with widespread pain. The hypothesis was that the P...

Positive Psychotherapy (PPT) is a form of short-term psychotherapy based on transcultural psychology and is currently applied in 15 countries. First results of a German PPT effectiveness study are discussed here. In a longitudinal study, patients treated with PPT showed a distinct reduction of symptoms as well as an improved way of feeling and behaving when compared to a control group where no ...

Breast cancer cells (BCCs) have preference for the bone marrow (BM). This study used an in vitro coculture of BCCs and BM stroma to represent a model of early breast cancer metastasis to the BM. The overarching hypothesis states that once BCCs are in the BM, microenvironmental factors induce changes in the expression of genes for cytokines and preprotachykinin-I (PPT-I) in both BCCs and stromal...

OBJECTIVES Postlaparoscopic shoulder pain (PLSP) remains a common problem after laparoscopies. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between pressure pain threshold (PPT) of different muscles and PLSP after gynecologic laparoscopy, and to explore the effect of parecoxib, a cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor, on the changes of PPT. MATERIALS AND METHODS The patients were randomly al...

Unusual base-pairing in a co-crystal of reverse transcriptase (RT) and a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) polypurine tract (PPT)-containing RNA/DNA hybrid suggests local nucleic acid flexibility mediates selection of the plus-strand primer. Structural elements of HIV-1 RT potentially participating in recognition of this duplex include the thumb subdomain and the ribonuclease H (RNase...

Breast cancer cells (BCCs) have preference for the bone marrow (BM). This study used an in vitro coculture of BCCs and BM stroma to represent a model of early breast cancer metastasis to the BM. The overarching hypothesis states that once BCCs are in the BM, microenvironmental factors induce changes in the expression of genes for cytokines and preprotachykinin-I (PPT-I) in both BCCs and stromal...

Recently, elevated dioxin levels, over 5 parts per trillion (ppt) 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), from Agent Orange was reported in 95% of 43 selected residents of Bien Hoa City, a city in southern Vietnam near a former air base used for Agent Orange-spraying missions. Agent Orange herbicide, contaminated with TCDD, was sprayed in Vietnam between 1962 and 1971 primarily for use as a...

BACKGROUND Research in animal models suggests that transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and conditioned pain modulation (CPM) produce analgesia via two different supraspinal pathways. No known studies have examined whether TENS and CPM applied simultaneously in human subjects will enhance the analgesic effect of either treatment alone. The purpose of the current study was to inves...

In this paper, in order to deal with the problems of disfluencies in conversational speech, a partial pattern tree (PPT) and a PPT-based statistical language model are proposed. A partial pattern is defined to represent a sub-sentence with a key-phrase and some optional/ functional phrases. The PPT is an integrated tree structure of the partial patterns generated from the training sentences and...