Percutaneous electrical nerve field stimulation compared to standard medical therapy in adolescents with functional abdominal pain disorders.

Introduction: Standard medical therapy (SMT) in children with functional abdominal pain disorders (FAPD) includes cyproheptadine and amitriptyline. While percutaneous electrical nerve field stimulation (PENFS) has shown benefit, no study has compared outcomes of PENFS to SMT. We aimed to examine changes in abdominal pain, nausea and disability before and after treatment and compare outcomes between treatments.

Multispectral tracing in densely labeled mouse brain with nTracer.

Summary: This note describes nTracer, an ImageJ plug-in for user-guided, semi-automated tracing of multispectral fluorescent tissue samples. This approach allows for rapid and accurate reconstruction of whole cell morphology of large neuronal populations in densely labeled brains.

Availability And Implementation: nTracer was written as a plug-in for the open source image processing software ImageJ.