Clinical Efficacy of Controlled-Release Morphine Tablets Combined with Celecoxib in Pain Management and the Effects on WNK1 Expression.

Objectives: This study was designed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of controlled-release morphine tablets combined with celecoxib in relieving osteocarcinoma-related pain and the effects of the combination on WNK1 expression.

Methods: A total of 110 patients with osteocarcinoma-related pain were selected and divided into two groups based on the treatment administered, including the control group (treated with controlled-release morphine tablets alone) and the study group (treated with a combination of controlled-release morphine tablets and celecoxib). We compared the treatment efficacy, pain level (visual analog scale (VAS)), time of onset of breakthrough pain (BTP), dose of morphine, incidence of adverse events, quality of life (QOL) score, and With-no-lysine 1 (WNK1) expression in the peripheral blood (PB) as determined with qRT-PCR before and after treatment, of the two groups.

Neural reflex pathway between cervical spinal and sympathetic ganglia in rabbits: implication for pathogenesis of cervical vertigo.

Background Context: A functional association between cervix and vertigo has been observed in patients with cervical vertigo, implicating correlation between cervical spinal and sympathetic ganglia. However, it is unclear where there is an anatomic connection between those two groups of ganglia.

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the existence of the neural connections between cervical spinal and sympathetic ganglia.