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Photopharmacological Manipulation associated with Mammalian CRY1 for Regulation of the particular Circadian Time.
Arthritis is an inflammatory disease of diarthrodial joints and is associated with swollen inflamed joints, disruption of joints, and loss of integrity of articular cartilage and synovial joints.

The current review intended to examine the data on the epidemiology, causes, clinical diagnosis, and prevention and control of different types of arthritis and on the use of medicinal plants in gouty arthritis.

The research team performed a literature review, searching relevant literature databases, including bioRxiv, medRxiv, Google Scholar, Embase, PsychINFO, and PubMed. The search terms were arthritis, diarthodial joints, use of medicinal plants in gouty arthritis, and synovial joints.

The study took place in the main library of the University of Sargodha in Sargodha, Pakistan.

The research team identified 135 studies, and eventually 92 unique academic publications were included in the analysis. Arthritis can develop and progress in any musculoskeletal joint, and most commonly occurs in knees, hips, shoumacologically. Treatment is different for each class of arthritis according to its cause and symptoms.
The current review showed that different types of arthritis has different causes and pathogeneses. Pain in joints is a major and common symptom in all types of arthritis. Arthritis is managed pharmacologically and nonpharmacologically. Treatment is different for each class of arthritis according to its cause and symptoms.
Tai Chi and Qigong are mind-body practices deriving from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) which are used clinically as therapeutic interventions. The objective of this study was to identify patterns and research trends in reviews about Tai Chi and/or Qigong through bibliometric analysis.

Based on a search of Scopus, authors, collaborations and source journal impact were analyzed, along with citation counts and alternative metrics.

In all, 205 documents were retrieved, 72% of which concerned the practice of Tai Chi. According to the type of practices, the average citation per year was 2.2 for Qigong studies, 3.2 for Tai Chi and 5.6 for Tai Chi and Qigong reviewed together. The most productive authors were Lee, Ernst and Pittle who shared a high number of papers. The strongest institutional connection was between universities in Korea and Exeter, UK. The source journals had good ranking positions both among journals belonging to the alternative medicine category and specialized clinical journals.

The level of collaboration among universities, the increasing number of meta-analysis studies, and the prestige of the journals in which articles were published attest that Tai Chi and Qigong practices are creating new opportunities in the traditional medicine.
The level of collaboration among universities, the increasing number of meta-analysis studies, and the prestige of the journals in which articles were published attest that Tai Chi and Qigong practices are creating new opportunities in the traditional medicine.Allergic rhinitis is a commonly encountered condition affecting approximately 20% of the population, and exhibits symptoms either as seasonal or perennial allergic rhinitis. This study was undertaken to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in the treatment of allergic rhinitis, while also proving that totality of symptoms is important for successful treatment of the cases. The suspected cases of allergy were identified on the basis of clinical presentation. Under inclusive criteria, all of the determined cases of allergic rhinitis were selected irrespective of age, sex, socioeconomic status, religion, or occupation. The cases were recorded, keeping the individualistic and holistic concept in mind. The data were collected by questioning the patient and by physical examination. Results showed that homoeopathic remedies prescribed on the basis of totality of symptoms are efficient in treating allergic rhinitis, along with other necessary precautions taken by the patient. Homeopathic medicines work by optimizing the overactive immune system. They provide a stimulus (in a highly diluted form) to the body like that of the trigger or allergen, leading to the gradual desensitization of the immune system. Remedies used for treating allergies mainly come from the plants or substances that in their raw form are usually responsible for causing allergy-like symptoms.
Several non-drug treatment approaches for systemic arterial hypertension have been studied aimed at reducing the adverse effects of this clinical condition. In addition to exercise training, which already has many of its modalities consolidated in the scientific field, body and mind practices have gained strength and deserve attention in the science and treatment of hypertension. The literature shows that meditation practices have numerous health benefits, one of which is blood pressure (BP) control.

This study aimed to evaluate the acute effects of a single mindfulness-based meditation on BP in adults with hypertension.

Research was developed that evaluated the BP of 5 adult women with controlled hypertension. As a data collection instrument, we used 2 sessions of ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) the first was a control session and the second a meditation session. Systolic (SBP), diastolic (DBP) and mean blood pressure (MBP) were evaluated at the pre- and post-session in addition to heart rate (HR), with clinical and ambulatorial measurements, during the day, night, morning surge and a 24-hour period. Data analysis was performed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) for the ABPM data and two-way ANOVA to analyze blood pressure.

The main results found were a statistically significant reduction in SBP in the morning and a tendency toward a significant decrease in MBP during the same period (P = .057). There were no significant changes in the other variables analyzed.

Therefore, we concluded that a single meditation session was effective only in reducing morning SBP.
Therefore, we concluded that a single meditation session was effective only in reducing morning SBP.
Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) is an herb with anti-inflammatory properties used in managing arthritis. There is significant clinical data in the public domain on the effects of Ashwagandha and this study was aimed at compiling and analysing these data in a structured manner. The major sources of evidence data were clinical trials and systematic review of extant literature.

Retrospective database search was conducted in the Clinical Trial Registry of India for trials registered from April 2008 to March 2020, and published literature related to the anti-arthritic effects of Withania somnifera were reviewed.

In all, 77 registered clinical trials were analysed and common among them were interventional, single-centre, randomized, double-blind, two-arm studies with Placebo being the comparator. Similar findings were observed in the 10 published clinical trials on arthritis evaluated for this study. While industry- and government-sponsored trials were identified, government funded sites with approvals from symptoms of arthritis in patients.
The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between psychological distress and disordered eating attitudes.

The study design was cross-sectional study. The 12-item General Health Questionnaire (ghq-12) and Eating Attitude Test-26 (eat-26) were used to measure psychological distress and disordered eating attitudes, respectively. The data were analyzed using spss version 20.0 Software (spss Inc, ii, Chicago, il, usa). Description statistics were used for height, weight, bmi), age, eat-26 scores and ghq-12 scores. Pearson's correlation analysis was performed to explore the relationship between the eat-26 scores and the ghq-12 scores.

The overall prevalence of disordered eating attitudes was 4.6%. The mean ghq-12 score in subjects with disordered eating attitude was higher than that of the control group (P < .05) in both the male and female groups.

Our study suggested that psychological distress is associated with disordered eating attitudes. Bmi and gender turned out to not be correlated with disordered eating attitude. The findings of this study revealed that university students who have psychological distress also have a tendency toward disordered eating attitudes.
Our study suggested that psychological distress is associated with disordered eating attitudes. Bmi and gender turned out to not be correlated with disordered eating attitude. The findings of this study revealed that university students who have psychological distress also have a tendency toward disordered eating attitudes.People prefer to use medicinal plants rather than chemical compounds because they are low cost and have fewer adverse events. Zingiber officinale Roscoe is a natural dietary rhizome with anti-oxidative, anti-inflammatory and anti-carcinogenic properties. Tribulus terrestris L. has been used for the treatment of impotence, to enhance sexual drive and performance and for its diuretic and uricosuric effects. The aim of this study was to evaluate the combined effect of 2 extracts, Tribulus terristris and Zingiber officinale (TZ) for antioxidant, enzyme modulation, liver function, kidney function, blood profile and anti-hypertensive effects, which may pave the way for possible therapeutic applications. Antioxidant potential was measured with the 2,2-diphenyl-1-picryl-hydrazyl-hydrate free radical method antioxidant assay (DPPH) and kojic acid was used as the standard drug for tyrosine inhibition assay. The effect of TZ on biochemical parameters of the liver (alanine transferase [ALT], alkaline phosphatase [ALP], are was significantly decreased. Therefore, we concluded that TZ is safe and can be used in the treatment of hypertension.Dysgeusia, or distorted taste, has recently been acknowledged as a complication of thalamic ablation or thalamic deep brain stimulation as a treatment of tremor. In a unique patient, left-sided MR-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy improved right-sided essential tremor but also induced severe dysgeusia. Although dysgeusia persisted and caused substantial weight loss, tremor slowly relapsed. Therefore, 19 months after the first procedure, the patient underwent a second focused ultrasound thalamotomy procedure, which again improved tremor but also completely resolved the dysgeusia. On the basis of normative and patient-specific whole-brain tractography, the authors determined the relationship between the thalamotomy lesions and the medial border of the medial lemniscus-a surrogate for the solitariothalamic gustatory fibers-after the first and second focused ultrasound thalamotomy procedures. Both tractography methods suggested partial and complete disruption of the solitariothalamic gustatory fibers after the first and second thalamotomy procedures, respectively. The tractography findings in this unique patient demonstrate that incomplete and complete disruption of a neural pathway can induce and resolve symptoms, respectively, and serve as the rationale for ablative procedures for neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Resection of glioma in the nondominant hemisphere involving the motor areas and pathways requires the use of brain-mapping techniques to spare essential sites subserving motor control. No clear indications are available for performing motor mapping under either awake or asleep conditions or for the best mapping paradigm (e.g., resting or active, high-frequency [HF] or low-frequency [LF] stimulation) that provides the best oncological and functional outcomes when tailored to the clinical context. This work aimed to identify clinical and imaging factors that influence surgical strategy (asleep motor mapping vs awake motor mapping) and that are associated with the best functional and oncological outcomes and to design a "motor mapping score" for guiding tumor resection in this area.

The authors evaluated a retrospective series of patients with nondominant-hemisphere glioma-located or infiltrating within 2 cm anteriorly or posteriorly to the central sulcus and affecting the primary motor cortex, its fibers, and/or the praxis network-who underwent operations with asleep (HF monopolar probe) or awake (LF and HF probes) motor mapping.
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