The Authors have explored a new complementary approach, employed in the last 40 years for, among other uses, medical purposes: oxygen-ozone therapy. Anecdotal works have highlighted interesting results obtained in disk herniation with infiltration of paravertebral muscles with oxygen-ozone.

To verify the existence of a nociceptive effect and investigate a possible mechanism of action, an experimental model of edema induction by subcutaneous capsaicin injection in the rat paw was employed. Leggi tutto...

Calcitonin induces contraction in the vascular and extravascular smooth muscle and facilitates the transmission of the excitation in somatic motor nerve endings. These actions are Ca2(+)-dependent.

The calcitonin effect on autonomic nerve endings has been studied here by testing influence of calcitonin on the contractile responses of the isolated rat stomach. The organ was submitted to electrical vagal stimulation or, after denervation, to exogenous acetylcholine. Leggi tutto...