Empathy has been emphasized as part of a larger professionalism initiative nationwide in medical education and has been a contentious topic insofar as there has been much academic debate over its definition and application ...

In order to address how acute nociceptive pain can transition to nociplastic pain, we developed a murine model in which acute injury-induced mechanical hypersensitivity was prolonged beyond its normal resolution time ...

Painful, motion-limiting hypertrophic scars (HTS) form after protracted wound healing in patients with severe full-thickness burns and pose difficult treatment challenges. Despite substantial reduction in postburn mortality, ...

Primary care nursing (PCN) is a common nursing care delivery system within the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Some studies of the effects of this form of care delivery have demonstrated positive effects for patients, ...

Head injuries result in significant morbidity in rough stock rodeo events. Concussions are the most common injury sustained by rough stock riders, representing 50% of all major injuries. A pilot study conducted in 2007 ...

Resilience, the ability to adapt and ‘bounce back’ despite adversity, has gained a lot of attention in the aging literature in the past decade. The risk of adverse events increases linearly with age and therefore focusing ...

Our laboratory first reported the complete sequence of the type III secretion system (T3SS) from a diarrheal isolate SSU of A. hydrophila. We identified an effector protein (designated as AexU) of the T3SS, which exhibited ...

Vascular inflammation plays a significant role in aortic diseases and involves enhanced recruitment and local activation of circulating monocytes along with cytokine production, but the mechanisms responsible for these ...

The non-structural protein 1 (nsp1) proteins of several coronaviruses share a common property to inhibit host gene expression, but use different mechanisms to exert this function. Unlike the nsp1 protein of SARS coronavirus, ...

Millions of individuals are at risk of arenavirus infection worldwide, with untreated infections often resulting in potentially lethal disease. Junin virus (JUNV), the causative agent of Argentine hemorrhagic fever (AHF), ...