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Nonmedical Use of Opioids Following Short Term Therapeutic Exposure in Children and Youth: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Study of Decision Maker Information Needs
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Introduction Healthcare visits, hospitalizations, and deaths due to opioid-related harms continue to rise for children, despite an overall decline in opioid prescriptions. Decision-makers (including patients, families, clinicians, and policy-makers) require high quality syntheses to inform...
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Fall 2023
The overarching idea of this thesis stemmed from previous work in our lab, where it was noticed that females and males exhibited different disease trajectories in a model of Multiple Sclerosis. Combined with our observation of different outcome metrics for peripheral nociception suggested that...
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Pain and analgesia in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis: Contribution of the central nucleus of the amygdala
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation, degeneration and demyelinating lesions within the central nervous system. Chronic pain is a highly prevalent symptom associated with MS, affecting 50-80% of patients over the course of their disease....
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Pharmacological and Fluorometric Assessment of Neuronal KCNQ Channels, and Implications for Understanding Neurological Disease
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Epilepsy affects 60 million people worldwide, and encompasses the most common forms of neurological disorders. Epilepsy manifests in diverse ways in patients, ranging from mild cognitive effects, to seizures, to the more severe epileptic encephalopathy. While many pharmacological approaches exist...
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Fall 2010
This thesis examines how female athletes relate to and interpret their experiences of pain. Starting from the position that the meaning of pain is not given but is interpreted, this thesis takes as its central question: what compels athletes to interpret their pain in the ways that they do?...
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Fall 2013
Glomus cells of the carotid body are peripheral chemoreceptors that detect changes in arterial oxygen levels. Hypoxia suppresses oxygen-sensitive K+ channels in glomus cells, resulting in cytosolic Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) elevation in glomus cells via the activation of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels. The...
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Regulation of Cardiac Gap Junctional Communication: Metabolic regulation of Cx40 and Cx43 via phosphorylation
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Alterations in myocardial metabolism and cardiac electrophysiology associated with structural heart disease generate lethal arrhythmias. Differential levels of energy (ATP) supply and demand are generated with structural heart disease that is expected to activate 5’-amp activated protein kinase...
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Short, Intermediate, and Long-Term Effects of Opioids on Pain Intensity in Patients with Osteoarthritis or Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Chronic opioid use is associated with the development of hyperalgesia, which may end up attenuating any analgesic benefits over long-term therapy. We wanted to determine whether the analgesic efficacy of opioids compared to control therapy for osteoarthritis and chronic lower back pain differed...
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Fall 2023
Sleep is a vital neurobiological process, yet despite its fundamental significance, delineating the endogenous neural pathways involved has been slow to progress due to a lack of diverse sleep models. Anesthesia, which has direct behavioural parallels to natural sleep, and which is often linked...