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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Published in Charles Theisler, Adjuvant Medical Care, 2023
Licorice: Research indicates that a product containing slippery elm bark, lactulose, oat bran, and licorice root can reduce stomach pain and bloating, as well as improve bowel movements in patients with constipation that is related to IBS.11
‘New’ Recombinant Ecologies and their Implications – with Insights from Britain
Published in Kezia Barker, Robert A. Francis, Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species, 2021
In other situations, the arrival and establishment of a newcomer is visually obvious and may involve clear and apparent negative impacts on the established ecological order. Some cases involve the arrival and spread of pests and diseases with clearly catastrophic impacts. The loss of most native elms (Ulmus spp.) to Dutch elm disease and current threats to oak and ash are high-profile examples. However, even here the problems and their impacts can be difficult to assess in terms of ‘native’ species in ‘recombinant’ ecologies or non-natives suffering disease or pest outbreaks. Examples of the latter include horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) and its blight, rabbit and myxomatosis and the various diseases and pests of introduced but commercially important conifer trees. The issues in these cases are real and significant but nothing at all to do with native species or natural communities. However, it can be argued that these instances are very much centred within the domain of the dynamics of recombinant ecologies and with both exotic hosts and their pests or diseases.
Impact of Nutrition and Dietary Supplementation on Psoriasis Pathology
Published in Siba P. Raychaudhuri, Smriti K. Raychaudhuri, Debasis Bagchi, Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis, 2017
Odete Mendes, Mithila Shitut, Jayson Chen
Supplementation with herbal medicines and tea extracts (such as yellow saffron [Chrhamus tinsctorus]) may reduce inflammatory stress and, via immunomodulation, impact disease expression. For example, slippery elm (Ulmus fulva) may also impact mucosal inflammation and have a positive impact on disease progression (Brown et al., 2004).
A Rejection of “Applied Ethics”: Philosophy’s Real Contributions to Bioethics Found Elsewhere
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics, 2022
Ryan Marshall Felder, David Magnus
Even if informed consent is not primarily about exchanging information between a speaker and a hearer, it still plays an important function as a demonstration of respect, regardless of whether consent is based on an understanding of the clinical information or research protocols. Hilary Putnam’s concept of the division of linguistic labor shows how people can use words successfully without having any understanding of the extension of the words they are using (1975). To use his example, one of us does not know the difference between beech and elm trees. The only idea in his head is that they are deciduous trees. Nonetheless, when a neighbor tells him that their beech tree has rats living in it, he can convey that fact to others (“hey honey, the neighbor’s beech tree has rats living in it"). Similarly, a patient can still communicate consent to some medication even if they cannot offer a precise description of its risks and benefits relative to other possible medications. They may simply communicate their trust that the clinician is offering them an appropriate medication. Not all of us needs to understand the difference between a beech and an elm tree as long as there is someone else in our linguistic community who does understand. Language is fundamentally a social activity that depends upon context and community to work (Clapp et al. 2019).
Evaluation of the influence of in vivo exposure to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields on the plasma levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in rats
Published in International Journal of Radiation Biology, 2018
Joanna Wyszkowska, Tomasz Jędrzejewski, Jakub Piotrowski, Anna Wojciechowska, Maria Stankiewicz, Wieslaw Kozak
Obtained results demonstrate that the immune system is not affected by the conditions of typical MF exposure during magneto-therapy, simulated in our study by the exposure to MF for 1 h/day for 7 days. In contrary, however, 24 h exposure provoked a significant increase in plasma pro-inflammatory and regulatory cytokines level as well as the elevation in the blood parameters that clearly indicate an immune stimulation. Since a number of studies suggest that there is a link between immune activation manifested as inflammatory markers (cytokines, immune cells count) up-regulation and the development of neurodegenerative diseases (NDD) (Cao et al. 2011; Martorana et al. 2012; Shad et al. 2013), findings presented in our article provides an interesting angle to the discussion concerning this topic. Based on these data we postulate that exposure duration to an ELM-MF is a critical factor for the immune activation and that exceeding the exposure limits may increase the risk of developing diseases and may be considered as unsafe.
Intravitreal Ranibizumab and Dexamethasone Implant Injections as Primary Treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema: The Month 24 Results from Simultaneously Double Protocol
Published in Current Eye Research, 2023
Mahmut Kaya, Ferdane Atas, Nilufer Kocak, Taylan Ozturk, Ziya Ayhan, Suleyman Kaynak
DME is a multifactorial and complex disease driven by hypoxia, inflammation, hyperpermeability and angiogenesis. Steroids have a multifactorial mode of action and produce an anti-inflammatory effect through various mechanisms, including the decrease in the synthesis of inflammatory mediators and adhesion proteins as well as a decrease in VEGF levels. We speculated that intravitreal corticosteroid therapy in combination with anti-VEGF treatment use in the treatment of DME may be more effective than only anti-VEGF treatment on retinal morphology. The disrupted ELM and EZ may recover over time and under combination therapies.