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...

Irradiation of Escherichia coli cells with either coherent or non-coherent 632.8 nm light (4 J cm-2) causes a transient acceleration of cell proliferation, which is maximal about 60 min after the end of the phototreatment.

The stimulatory effect is dose dependent and is especially evident in the case of defective E. coli strains which are in the logarithmic phase of growth, while it becomes less important when cells are exposed to non-coherent 600-700 nm light. Leggi tutto...

Tritiated imipramine binding to whole platelets was measured in 16 chronic pain patients who were free from major depression, and in a control group.

The maximum binding was significantly lower in chronic pain patients than in the control group, whereas the binding affinity was not significantly different.

Twelve patients were treated with mianserin for 21 days; this produced a significant improvement in the mean scores for pain (evaluated with the McGill Questionnaire) and depressive symptoms (assessed with the Zung Self-Rating Scale). Leggi tutto...