Objective. With the increasing societal awareness of the prevalence and impact of acute
pain, there is a need to develop an acute pain classification system that both reflects …

To improve the delivery of patient care, governments and health-care institutions adopted
quality improvement methods that had been developed decades earlier in manufacturing …

Elastin‐like peptides (ELPs) are derivatives of tropoelastin with a unique property that allows
them to stay soluble below a certain critical temperature but reversibly form aggregates …

FGFR2 is a membrane-spanning tyrosine kinase that serves as a high affinity receptor for
several members of the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family. To explore functions of FGF/…

… Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of
Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, … with the visual, Cohen shows how the …

To explore mechanisms of restrictive respiratory physiology and high pleural pressure (P Pl
) in severe obesity, we studied 51 obese subjects (body mass index = 38–80.7 kg/m 2 ) and …

Obesity is a risk factor for being diagnosed with asthma, but there is conflicting evidence on
whether obesity is a risk factor for lung function abnormalities characteristic of asthma. We …

Background MicroRNAs are required for maintenance of pluripotency as well as differentiation,
but since more microRNAs have been computationally predicted in genome than have …

There is increasing evidence that the neurotrophins, particularly nerve growth factor (NGF)
and neurotrophin-3 (NT-3), play a role in the regulation of glial development in the CNS. …

Opioid tapering guidelines were created, in part, to decrease harm to patients resulting from
high-dose opioid therapy for chronic pain. However, countless “legacy patients” with chronic …