Researchers examine the role of GLP-2 in regulating food intake through its effects on gastrointestinal motility and satiety ...

Visceral sensory axons are almost exclusively thinly myelinated Aδ fibres and unmyelinated C fibres. Activity in most visceral sensory neurones, whether in vagal afferent fibres or spinal afferent ...

Loss of vision or, in the case of an unconscious patient, a relative afferent pupillary deficit representing TON may be the only evidence of ocular pathology. The clinician must reconcile a ...

Peripheral Mechanisms: Acupuncture stimulates specific points (acupoints) on the body, which activates high-density primary afferent fibers, including myelinated A fibers and unmyelinated C fibers.

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It was previously reported that in 5 patients with small-fiber neuropathy, neuropathic pain, and hyperalgesia, application of a single, brief electrical stimulus to the skin could give rise to 2 ...

The prevalence of obesity is steadily rising and has huge health and financial implications for society. Weight gain is due to an imbalance between dietary intake and energy expenditure and ...

This valuable work analyzes how specialized cells in the auditory cells, known as the octopus cells, can detect coincidences in their inputs at the submillisecond time scale. While previous work ...

Center for Brain Injury and Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Center for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration, and Restoration, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz ...

UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine Correspondence to: Dr H G L Rauch UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Sports Science Institute, Boundary Road ...

As a result, decreased sodium transport to the macula-densa inhibits tubule glomerular feedback, which decreases the eGFR by ...