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J Med Syst
January 2025
Instituto Polibienestar, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
The physician-patient relationship relies mostly on doctors' empathetic abilities to understand and manage patients' emotions, enhancing patient satisfaction and treatment adherence. With the advent of digital technologies in education, innovative empathy training methods such as virtual reality, simulation training systems, mobile apps, and wearable devices, have emerged for teaching empathy. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding the efficacy of these technologies in teaching empathy, the most effective types, and the primary beneficiaries -students or advanced healthcare professionals-.
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January 2025
Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Qingdao Medical College of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China; Institute of Innovative Drugs, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.
Dihydrotestosterone (DHT), an androgen derivate, is known to be a key factor involved in androgenetic alopecia. DHT suppresses the growth of outer root sheath cells and induces apoptosis of hair keratinocytes, thereby causing hair follicle miniaturization and hair regrowth inhibition. Forsythoside A, a natural substance derived from Forsythia suspensa, has been shown to reduce DHT-induced apoptosis in human hair cells and suppress hair regrowth inhibition induced by DHT in mice.
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January 2025
School of Pharmacy, Xiamen Medical College, Xiamen 361023, PR China; School of Pharmacy, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350108, PR China; Research Center for Sustained and Controlled Release Formulations, Xiamen Medical College, Xiamen 361023, PR China; Key Laboratory of Functional and Clinical Translational Medicine, Fujian Province University, Xiamen Medical College, Xiamen 361023, PR China. Electronic address:
Hypertrophic scar (HS) is a disease with excessive skin fibrosis and collagen disorder, which is generally caused by abnormal wound repair process after burn and trauma. Although intralesional injection of 5-fluorouracil (5-Fu) has been used in clinical treatment of HS, the patients' compliance of injection treatment is poor. In this study, a double-layer dissolution microneedle (MN) containing asiaticoside (AS) and 5-Fu was designed for the treatment of HS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Biol Macromol
January 2025
College of Chinese Medicinal Materials, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China; Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Center of Health Products and Medical Materials with Characteristic Resources, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China. Electronic address:
The healing of wounds in aging skin is a challenging issue that has not been thoroughly studied. Composite hydrogels made from natural polysaccharides have shown potential as dressings for various types of wounds. In this study, we prepared a polysaccharide-based composite hydrogel to provide a new strategy for treating aging skin wounds.
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January 2025
Innovative Clinical Training, Trials & Healthcare Initiative, Zermatt CH-3920, Switzerland.
In order to disentangle the effects of drugs from placebo responses, several approaches have been used, such as a placebo run-in phase in which only placebo nonresponders, or poor responders, are considered for further randomization to either placebo or active treatment. This study is aimed at investigating the variability of placebo nonresponders obtained through the classical placebo run-in paradigm (group RUN) and through mismatch conditioning (group MIS), as done in our previous study. To do this, we simulated a real clinical trial in the laboratory, in which the placebo responders of both groups were discarded and the remaining nonresponders of both groups RUN and MIS were randomized to either continuing on placebo (groups RUN-P and MIS-P, respectively) or receiving topical 0.
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