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Understanding the mechanisms underlying tolerance and hyperalgesia is essential to enhance morphine’s utility in chronic pain management.
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Multifidus stimulation is for patients with chronic, non-surgical low back pain who demonstrate impaired function in the muscles that stabilize the spine.
Merkel cells in fingertips were known to turn mechanical force into an electrical signal, but how that signal transferred to the nerve across the synapse was unknown.
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This new grant will be used to develop a full-scale family of devices for inhaled nitric oxide delivery for patients with pulmonary hypertension that can be used in health care facilities and for at-home care.
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The Blazer Bridge Fund is intended to identify and assist in the development of promising ideas, discoveries, innovations and/or technologies from UAB faculty and staff that have commercial potential.
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The new treatment involves using a spinal cord stimulator that sends electrical impulses into the spinal cord. The device responds to the spinal cord in real time and can adjust the electrical output 50-100 times per second based on what is happening in the spinal cord.
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Uncovering a pathophysiological mechanism that initiates, transitions and sustains neuropathic pain holds promise for treating neuropathic pain.
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The temporary PNS device can be used to treat chronic nerve pain, as well as joint pain and back pain, for patients for whom oral medications are not effective, or who wish to minimize the use of medications or more invasive procedures.
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Having a bacterial infection at the same time as COVID-19 is a greater risk factor for COVID-19 severity and mortality than previously described risk factors such as advanced age, male sex or various comorbidities.
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Even when at odds with his health, Matalon continued his academic excellence and service to the field of lung disease research.
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Chronic pain often leads to depression, which increases suffering and is clinically difficult to treat. Understanding the underlying mechanism identifies a potential therapeutic target for treatment.
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This is the highest honor a scientist of Greek descent can receive.
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Record $95 million Heersink lead gift to advance strategic growth and biomedical innovation.
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Vaccines are expected to arrive next week and be administered quickly thereafter.
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One participant said, “It seems like we’ve done 10 years of work in seven months!”
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High-profile speakers show the “critical role that UAB is playing in the effort to combat this pandemic.”
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The vaccine candidate Altimmune’s AdCOVID potently stimulated neutralizing antibody and T cell responses, as well as mucosal immunity in the respiratory tract.
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UAB’s Center for Addiction and Pain Prevention and Intervention will conduct research that can be developed and translated into better treatments for addiction and pain.
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A drug that inhibits the protease plasmin is hypothesized to reduce the infectivity and virulence of the virus, as measured by reduced need for hospitalization within a week.
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UAB and Polish researchers propose that the COVID-19 virus acts as a microRNA “sponge” to deplete miRNA levels in ways that aid viral replication and stymie the host immune response.
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