THERAPIES AND CHALLENGES IN THE POST-STROKE APHASIA REHABILITATION ARENA: CURRENT AND FUTURE PROSPECTS



Case report: Tongdu Xingshen acupuncture for a patient with persistent vegetative state after herpes simplex virus encephalitis

IntroductionA persistent vegetative state (PVS) can be caused by traumatic or non-traumatic brain injury.PVS is a complex clinical condition with numerous complications.Nursing care, medical treatment, and comprehensive rehabilitation are necessary to improve the outcomes of PVS.However, the prognosis remains unsatisfactory.Acupuncture therapy has

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Disease interactions in a shared host plant: effects of pre-existing viral infection on cucurbit plant defense responses and resistance to bacterial wilt disease.

Both biotic and abiotic stressors can elicit broad-spectrum plant resistance against subsequent pathogen challenges.However, we currently have little understanding of how such effects influence broader aspects of disease ecology and epidemiology in natural environments where plants interact with multiple antagonists simultaneously.In previous work,

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Responsiveness of blood and sputum inflammatory cells in Japanese COPD patients, non-COPD smoking controls, and non-COPD nonsmoking controls

Tomotaka Kawayama,1 Takashi Kinoshita,1 Kazuko Matsunaga,2 Akihiro Kobayashi,3 Tomoyuki Hayamizu,4 Malcolm Johnson,5 Tomoaki Hoshino11Division of Respirology, Neurology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, 2Department of Respiratory Medicine, Fukuoka Sanno Hospital, Wet Food Fukuoka, 3Biomedical D

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