1. Understand that heat therapies and electrotherapies are usually administered in conjunction with other treatments (e.g., exercise, manual therapy). 2. Know that heat and cold are both useful in reducing pain and spasm of musculoskeletal and neurological pathologies (Lehmann and deLateur 1999; Cameron 2003). 3. Be aware of evidence that superficial heating of skin produces muscle relaxation d...

It is anticipated that in the future, increasing power densities and resultant temperatures will often be the dominant limit to processor performance and a significant component of cost. Dynamic thermal management (DTM) techniques address this issue by allowing the thermal solution to be designed for a temperature less than the peak. Evaluating DTM and other processor thermal properties require...

The pathophysiology of febrile convulsion, the most common childhood neurologic disease, remains unclear. In this study, we investigated what role a heat shock protein plays in this disease. We enrolled eight boys and two girls with febrile convulsion and 10 age-matched healthy controls. We did a biosynthetic evaluation of both groups by separating lymphocytes and measuring the expression of he...

Replication-deficient adenovirus expression vectors were used to introduce a recombinant DNA construct containing enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) under control of a truncated, human heat shock promoter into human prostate cancer cells growing either exponentially or in plateau phase. This was done to measure controlled, heat shockinduced EGFP expression under conditions relevant to tr...

Replication-deficient adenovirus expression vectors were used to introduce a recombinant DNA construct containing enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) under control of a truncated, human heat shock promoter into human prostate cancer cells growing either exponentially or in plateau phase. This was done to measure controlled, heat shock-induced EGFP expression under conditions relevant to t...

Background: Wet cupping therapy is a complementary therapy in pain management. The mechanism of this therapy, however, needs further elucidation. Cells injured by wet cupping therapy seem to stimulate the expression of heat shock protein 70 (HSP70). Its benefit in pain reduction could be mediated by the expression of ß-endorphin. This study aimed at determining the correlation between HSP70 and...