Medication refractory focal epilepsy creates a significant challenge, with approximately 30% of patients ineligible for surgery due to the involvement of eloquent cortex in the epileptogenic network. For such patients with limited surgical options, electrical neuromodulation represents a promising alternative therapy. In this study, we investigate the potential of non-invasive temporal interference (TI) electrical stimulation to reduce epileptic biomarkers in patients with epilepsy by comparing intracerebral recordings obtained before, during, and after TI stimulation, to recordings during low and high kHz frequency (HF) sham stimulation.
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March 2024
Women have been found to be at a higher risk of morbidity and mortality from type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and asthma. α-Glucosidase inhibitors have been used to treat T2DM, and arachidonic acid 15-lipoxygenase (ALOX15) inhibitors have been suggested to be used as treatments for asthma and T2DM. Compounds that inhibit both enzymes may be studied as potential treatments for people with both T2DM and asthma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effects of electromagnetic interference have been hiding in plain sight for millennia and are now being applied to the non-invasive stimulation of deep tissues. In the article by Missey et al., the effect of non-invasive stimulation of the hypoglossal nerve by an interference envelope of interfering carrier waves is examined in mice and participants with sleep apnea.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe high incidence of human salmonellosis and multi-drug resistant (MDR) strains of Salmonella Typhimurium (ST) is of concern to global public and animal health. Our research, by means of the broth microdilution method, evaluated the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) distribution of 12 antimicrobials against a collection of 73 ST and mST and S. typhimurium monophasic variant 4,[5],12:i:- (mST) isolates from slaughtered pigs reared in extensive systems in southern Spain, and also 12 resistance-associated genes or antimicrobial resistance (AMR) determinants using qPCR.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCanine leishmaniasis is a parasitic zoonosis mainly caused by L. infantum; an obligate intracellular protozoan transmitted by haematophagous insects of the genus Phlebotomus, which affects dogs and wild canids. The clinical implications of this disease are highly variable, since infected animals may remain asymptomatic (absence of observable clinical signs) or present a wide spectrum of clinical alterations and degrees of severity, including the death of the animal.
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