Abstract Background Post-operative ileus is a common post-operative complication, leading to prolonged hospital stay and associated costs. Evidence suggests use of chewing gum after abdominal surgery safe, effective intervention encourage gastrointestinal function reduce ileus. The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society supports this as part the multimodal recovery pathway. Aim To impro...

The installation of dental implants has become a common treatment for edentulous patients. However, concern exists about the influence osteoporosis on final implant success. This study evaluated whether an ovariectomy (OVX)-induced osteoporotic condition, induced eight weeks postimplantation in rat femoral condyle, influences bone response to already-integrated implants. were inserted condyle 1...

This is the classical version of pseudodifferential operators that is used in the investigation of partial differential operators, cf. [21]. In the language of physics, the Kohn–Nirenberg correspondence and its relatives such as the Weyl correspondence are methods of quantization. In the language of engineering, they are time-varying filters. The Kohn–Nirenberg correspondence is usually analyze...

Abstract Background and Aims Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an independent cardiovascular risk factor. The initial mechanisms of myocardial remodeling (MR) in CKD are poorly understood. major developmental signaling pathways Notch, Hedgehog, Wnt, Bmp seem to be involved many crucial steps MR (cardiomyocytes survival regeneration, fibrotic response, angiogenesis), while their role due was not p...

UNLABELLED Tan C-W, Christie L, St-Georges V, Telford N. Discrimination of real and sham acupuncture needles using the Park sham device: a preliminary study. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the blinding effectiveness of the Park sham acupuncture device using participants' ability to discriminate between the real and sham acupuncture needles. DESIGN The design was a yes-no experiment. Judgments were m...

BACKGROUND In a recent individual patient data meta-analysis, acupuncture was found to be superior to both sham and non-sham controls in patients with chronic pain. In this paper we identify variations in types of sham and non-sham controls used and analyze their impact on the effect size of acupuncture. METHODS Based on literature searches of acupuncture trials involving patients with headac...