Publications by authors named "Amelia M Weaver"
Article Synopsis
- Dry needling treatment aims to improve muscle function in patients with musculoskeletal pain, but research on its efficacy is limited.
- A study involving 60 participants with low back pain compared the effects of actual dry needling to a sham treatment on lumbar muscle stiffness using shear wave elastography.
- Results showed that those who received dry needling had significantly lower resting stiffness in the erector spinae muscles after one week, suggesting its potential benefits for patients with lumbar muscle stiffness.
8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine (OdG) is an abundant DNA lesion produced during oxidative damage to DNA. It can form relatively stable base pairs with both dC and dA that mimic natural dG:dC and dT:dA base pairs, respectively. Thus, when in the template strand, OdG can direct the insertion of either dCTP or dATP during replication, the latter of which can lead to a dG → T transversion.
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