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Zhao YG, Annett R, Yan T. Effects of forage types on digestibility, methane emissions, and nitrogen utilization efficiency in two genotypes of hill ewes. J Anim Sci 2018; 95:3762-3771. [PMID: 28805899 DOI: 10.2527/jas.2017.1598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Thirty-six nonpregnant hill ewes (18 pure Scottish Blackface and 18 Swaledale × Scottish Blackface) aged 18 mo and weighing 48 ± 4.8 kg were allocated to 3 forage treatments balanced for genotype and BW. Each genotype was offered 3 forages (pelleted ryegrass, fresh lowland grass, and fresh hill grass) ad libitum with 6 ewes for each of the 6 genotype × diet combination treatments. Pelleted ryegrass was sourced from a commercial supplier (Drygrass South Western Ltd, Burrington, UK). Fresh lowland grass was harvested daily in the morning from a third regrowth perennial ryegrass () sward. Fresh hill grass was harvested from a seminatural hill grassland every 2 d and stored in plastic bags at 4 to 5°C until offered. The animals were individually housed in pens and offered experimental diets for 14 d before being transferred to 6 individual respiration chambers for a further 4 d, during which feed intake, fecal and urine outputs, and CH emissions were measured. There was no interaction between genotype and forage types on any variable measured. In a comparison of effects of the 3 forages, pelleted ryegrass had the greatest ( < 0.001) values in DMI, GE intake, CH emissions, N intake (NI), and fecal N (FN), urine N (UN), and manure N (MN) outputs, whereas hill grass had the lowest ( < 0.001) values in DMI, energy (GE, DE, and ME) intake, CH emissions, NI, UN, and MN. However, pelleted ryegrass had the lowest ratio in CH emissions per unit DMI ( = 0.022) or GE intake ( = 0.026) or UN excretion as a proportion of NI or MN ( < 0.001). Lowland grass had a greater ( < 0.001) digestibility of DM, OM, CP, NDF, ADF, and GE and a greater ( < 0.001) ME:GE ratio or retained N:NI ratio than pelleted ryegrass and hill grass. Genotypes of sheep had no effect on any variable in feed intake, digestibility, CH emissions, or N utilization. The CH conversion factors (CH energy/GE) for pelleted ryegrass, lowland grass, and hill grass were 4.4, 5.7, and 5.6%, respectively. All data were then pooled to develop regression equations between CH and DMI or between N excretions (FN, UN, and MN) and NI. Methane emissions and N excretions were positively related to DMI and NI ( < 0.001), respectively. However, increasing DMI could reduce CH emissions per kilogram DMI. These equations add new information in predicting enteric CH emissions and N utilization efficiency and can be used to quantify the environmental footprint of hill sheep production systems.
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Zhao YG, Annett R, Yan T. Effects of forage types on digestibility, methane emissions, and nitrogen utilization efficiency in two genotypes of hill ewes. J Anim Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.2527/jas2017.1598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Zhao Y, Aubry A, Annett R, O’Connell N, Yan T. Enteric methane emissions and nitrogen utilisation efficiency for two genotype of hill hoggets offered fresh, ensiled and pelleted ryegrass. Livest Sci 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2016.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Walsh KS, Noll RB, Annett RD, Patel SK, Patenaude AF, Embry L. Standard of Care for Neuropsychological Monitoring in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology: Lessons From the Children's Oncology Group (COG). Pediatr Blood Cancer 2016; 63:191-5. [PMID: 26451963 PMCID: PMC5222571 DOI: 10.1002/pbc.25759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2015] [Accepted: 08/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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As the mortality of pediatric cancers has decreased, focus on neuropsychological morbidities of treatment sequelae have increased. Neuropsychological evaluations are essential diagnostic tools that assess cognitive functioning and neurobiological integrity. These tests provide vital information to support ongoing medical care, documenting cognitive morbidity and response to interventions. We frame standards for neuropsychological monitoring of pediatric patients with CNS malignancy or who received cancer-directed therapies involving the CNS and discuss billing for these services in the United States in the context of clinical research. We describe a cost-effective, efficient model of neuropsychological monitoring that may increases access to neuropsychological care.
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- KS Walsh
- Children’s National Health System & The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- University of Colorado Denver; Children’s Hospital of Colorado
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- City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
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- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
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Zhao YG, Aubry A, O'Connell NE, Annett R, Yan T. Effects of breed, sex, and concentrate supplementation on digestibility, enteric methane emissions, and nitrogen utilization efficiency in growing lambs offered fresh grass1. J Anim Sci 2015; 93:5764-73. [DOI: 10.2527/jas.2015-9515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Y. G. Zhao
- Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough, Co. Down, BT26 6DR, United Kingdom
- Institute for Global Food Security, Queen's University Belfast, BT9 5BN, United Kingdom
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- Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough, Co. Down, BT26 6DR, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Global Food Security, Queen's University Belfast, BT9 5BN, United Kingdom
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- Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough, Co. Down, BT26 6DR, United Kingdom
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- Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough, Co. Down, BT26 6DR, United Kingdom
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Berchicci M, Zhang T, Romero L, Peters A, Annett R, Teuscher U, Bertollo M, Okada Y, Stephen J, Comani S. Development of mu rhythm in infants and preschool children. Dev Neurosci 2011; 33:130-43. [PMID: 21778699 DOI: 10.1159/000329095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2010] [Accepted: 05/06/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Mu rhythm is an idling rhythm that originates in the sensorimotor cortex during rest. The frequency of mu rhythm, which is well established in adults, is 8-12 Hz, whereas the limited results available from children suggest a frequency as low as 5.4 Hz at 6 months of age, which gradually increases to the adult value. Understanding the normal development of mu rhythm has important theoretical and clinical implications since we still know very little about this signal in infants and how it develops with age. We measured mu rhythm over the left hemisphere using a pediatric magnetoencephalography (MEG) system in 25 infants (11-47 weeks), 18 preschool children (2-5 years) and 6 adults (20-39 years) for two 5-min sessions during two intermixed conditions: a rest condition in which the hands were at rest, and a prehension condition in which the subject squeezed a pipette with his/her right hand. In all participants, mu rhythm was present over the frontoparietal area during the rest condition, but was clearly suppressed during the prehension condition. Mu rhythm peak frequency, determined from the amplitude spectra, increased rapidly as a function of age from 2.75 Hz at 11 weeks to 8.25 Hz at 47 weeks (r2 = 0.83). It increased very slowly during the preschool period (3.1 ± 0.9 years; 8.5 ± 0.54 Hz). The frequency in these children was, however, lower than in adults (10.3 ± 1.2 Hz). Our results show a rapid maturation in spontaneous mu rhythm during the first year of life.
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- M Berchicci
- BIND--Behavioral Imaging and Neural Dynamics Center, University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.
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Despite children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia missing a significant amount of school, little empirical literature guides the optimal content, setting and timing of a school reintegration programme. We examined the feasibility of a 4-month school reintegration intervention by: (1) developing collaboration with a community-based advocacy organisation; (2) developing intervention modules and observable end points; and (3) determining how the study achieved recruitment expectations. Eight families with children aged 6-12 years diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and parents were enrolled in the study. An experienced advocate implemented a series of eight modules over a 4-month period (twice per month) with the families. Participants completed pre-post measures. Successful collaboration with the advocacy organisation and the development of an intervention module series were achieved. Recruitment aims proved more difficult: enrolment was extended when recruitment for the original 1- to 6-month post-diagnosis window proved difficult. The advocate was able to complete between three and seven of the modules (mean = 5.2, standard deviation = 1.5). Families preferred clinic-based intervention. Challenges faced and lessons learned include: (1) advocacy organisations may be useful resources for school reintegration interventions; (2) school reintegration interventions must be flexibly applied; and (3) measurement end points constructed to gauge programme effectiveness.
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- R D Annett
- Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM.
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Berchicci M, Zhang T, Romero L, Peters A, Annett R, Teuscher U, Bertollo M, Okada Y, Comani S, Stephen J. Mu-rhythm detection in infants. Neuroimage 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1053-8119(09)71552-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To define predictors of disease-specific quality of life (QOL) and the relationship between asthma symptoms and disease-specific QOL. STUDY DESIGN Three hundred thirty-nine children participated at 4 of 8 Childhood Asthma Management Program clinical centers. Included in the analyses were 2 weeks of asthma symptom data, child-reported health status, and QOL scores from the Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire. Data were obtained 12 months after randomization into the Childhood Asthma Management Program. RESULTS Children were rated at baseline as having "moderate" asthma (63%) and "mild" asthma (37%). QOL scores were correlated with the child-reported anxiety measures. Factor analysis of the QOL measure resulted in 2 factors. Stepwise multiple regression indicated that the strongest independent predictors of QOL were the child's anxiety level, age, sex, and a measure of the child's tendency to minimize or exaggerate symptoms. CONCLUSIONS Children had few asthma symptoms in the 2 weeks before their 12-month follow-up clinic visit and a generally positive QOL, suggesting that mild-to-moderate asthma does not significantly impair QOL. A child's QOL was predicted primarily by their level of anxiety.
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- R D Annett
- Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131-5311, USA
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Increasing interest has been directed to understanding health outcomes associated with pediatric disease processes, including asthma. Salient areas of interest to health outcomes research include the child's and parent's subjective experience with the disease, a concept most often identified as quality of life. Quality of life reports fit within a broader scope of outcome measures embodied in the concept of children's health status. This article provides a description for how a child's health status can be understood theoretically, from a research perspective and in clinical practice. Emphasis is directed to how information obtained from both the child and parent is critical to outcomes research and clinical practice. Unique methodologic problems in assessing child health outcomes such as the challenge of understanding how the child's changing cognitive development may have an impact on responses to outcome measures and the role of contextual variables such as family characteristics are discussed. A variety of subjective and objective outcome measures currently exist that may be used in research on children with asthma. Practical guidelines for implementing outcomes research for children with asthma are presented. Clinical researchers must use multiple outcome measures for assessing asthma characteristics, including psychosocial characteristics, which have an impact on adherence and treatment regimens.
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- R D Annett
- Pediatric Pulmonary Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131-5311, USA
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Bender BG, Annett RD, Iklé D, DuHamel TR, Rand C, Strunk RC. Relationship between disease and psychological adaptation in children in the Childhood Asthma Management Program and their families. CAMP Research Group. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2000; 154:706-13. [PMID: 10891023 DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.154.7.706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To test the hypotheses that the burden of childhood asthma compromises psychological adaptation and that the degree of compromise increases with disease severity. DESIGN The Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) is a multicenter randomized clinical trial initiated and funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. SETTING Study sites were located in Albuquerque, NM, Baltimore, Md, Boston, Mass, Denver, Colo, St Louis, Mo, San Diego, Calif, Seattle, Wash, and Toronto, Ontario. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1,041 children aged 5 to 12 years were randomized to the trial after confirming their mild to moderate asthma. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Psychological questionnaires administered at baseline to parents and participants assessed anxiety, depression, behavioral competence, social support, and family functioning. RESULTS Psychological difficulty was not increased in this group of asthmatic children and their families. Psychological adaptation in the children was associated with the psychological adaptation of the family but not with disease-related variables. Scores from the Impact on Family Scale, a measure of family quality of life related to the child's illness, were associated more strongly with the overall psychological characteristics of the family and child and very little with disease characteristics or severity. CONCLUSIONS Mild to moderate asthma has imposed modest effects on the daily life but not the psychological health of this group of children. Variation in the psychological characteristics of these children was, as is the case for most children, traceable to the overall psychological adaptation of their families.
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- B G Bender
- National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colo 80206, USA
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Annett RD, Aylward EH, Lapidus J, Bender BG, DuHamel T. Neurocognitive functioning in children with mild and moderate asthma in the childhood asthma management program. The Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) Research Group. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2000; 105:717-24. [PMID: 10756221 DOI: 10.1067/mai.2000.105226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND The Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) is a multicenter double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial of two anti-inflammatory agents and placebo in children with mild and moderate asthma. OBJECTIVE The interrelationship between asthma severity and neurocognitive functioning among 1041 children (age range, 5-12 years) enrolled in the CAMP trial was examined. METHODS Asthma severity was established at baseline with a clinical history of asthma symptomatology and measures of lung function (spirometry and methacholine challenge). Diary cards were used in a screening to record nighttime awakenings and doctor contacts caused by asthma symptoms, symptom severity, and number of puffs from a rescue inhaler. All children received a comprehensive neurocognitive assessment at the end of the 28-day screening period (before randomization), including measures of intelligence, attention, memory, and academic achievement. RESULTS Significant differences were found between children with mild and moderate asthma on lung function and symptom outcome variables (log(e)FEV(1)PC(20), DeltaFEV(1) percent predicted, change in peak flow percent predicted, nighttime awakenings caused by asthma, average symptom severity score, and average daily number of puffs from a rescue inhaler) but not on neurocognitive variables. Multiple regression analyses revealed that asthma outcomes could not be predicted by neurocognitive variables despite controlling for socioeconomic status. The prevalence of neurocognitive dysfunction, as indicated by the use of psychostimulant medication, was found to be consistent with that found in the existing literature. CONCLUSION Mild and moderate asthma symptoms are not related to neurocognitive functioning in the children enrolled in CAMP. Mean performance on neurocognitive variables was found to be similar to that of national normative data.
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- R D Annett
- University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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In spite of frequent reports that nocturnal asthma results in fatigue and impaired cognitive performance, there exists little objective evidence as to the daytime consequences of this disorder. Treatment studies have established that the symptoms of nocturnal asthma improve with medication intervention, but performance does not. Studies of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a source of generally more severe sleep fragmentation, have demonstrated that measurement of sleep-deprivation effects is limited to tasks requiring heightened alertness and rapid information processing, and that the degree of score change is related to the degree of sleep disruption. Studies of normal, but sleep-deprived, subjects indicate that (1) utilization of repetitive measures sustained for long duration can potentiate motivation to overcome the effects of fatigue in the laboratory, and (2) even when average scores do not change significantly, performance becomes more irregular. These collective findings about the measurement of performance impairment secondary to sleep deprivation can be used to guide new studies of nocturnal asthma. Finally, children must be included in future investigations because they may be at even greater risk for daytime consequences of nocturnal asthma than adults.
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- B G Bender
- National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado 80206, USA
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Neuropsychological dysfunction associated with pediatric asthma is reviewed. Significant methodological confounds associated with clinical research, including problems with the objective measure of asthma, are prevalent in many studies. Most evidence does not support the belief that asthma alone results in homogeneous neuropsychological compromise. Studies of adverse reactions to asthma medications indicate medication-specific effects including slight improvements in some aspects of neuropsychological functioning, such as attention, and deficiencies in other aspects of neuropsychological functioning, such as memory. The acute neuropsychological effects of various medication regimens appears to be reversible with cessation of the asthma medication under suspicion, although no data yet exist regarding the long-term effects of therapeutic dosages of asthma medications upon a developing nervous system. The hypothetical effects of asthma on school performance have been related to non-neuropsychological variables such as a child's socioeconomic status, though there is also evidence suggesting that poorly controlled asthma is related to learning problems. Implications for pediatric neuropsychologists are discussed.
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- R D Annett
- Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico, School of Medicine, Albuquerque 87131-5311
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It has recently been proposed that there is a vulnerable period of time following successful learning when paradoxical sleep (PS) is necessary for learning. This vulnerable time period has been called the PS window. In Experiment 1, the protein synthesis inhibitor anisomycin (ANI) was administered following shuttle avoidance training in the Sprauge-Dawley rat to coincide with the onset of an established PS window. Control groups received either saline or ANI either 3 hours before or 3 hours after the beginning of the PS window. Three hours after the injection, each group was retested. Then animals were immediately sacrificed, and whole brain biochemical analyses were done on levels of acetylcholine (ACh) and activity of acetylcholinesterase (AChE). Only the rats given ANI timed to coincide with the beginning of the PS window showed learning deficits. All ANI-treated groups had less ACh and AChE activity. In Experiment 2, the ACh antagonist scopolamine (SCOP) was injected at the same times as in Experiment 1, and each of these groups had a corresponding saline control group as before. Retesting was done 1 day later; once again, the only group to show learning deficits was the group receiving SCOP timed to coincide with the PS window. Results suggested that the transmitter ACh plays an important role in learning/memory processes at the PS window.
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- C Smith
- Department of Psychology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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Vernon HT, Dhami MS, Howley TP, Annett R. Spinal manipulation and beta-endorphin: a controlled study of the effect of a spinal manipulation on plasma beta-endorphin levels in normal males. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 1986; 9:115-23. [PMID: 2942618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The role of spinal manipulation in the relief of pain is becoming clearer and more demonstrable as time passes. One approach to this study is the effect of manipulation on the neurochemical mechanisms of antinociception. Chief among these is beta-endorphin, which has been found to produce a wide range of beneficial effects, especially analgesia. The intent of our study was to demonstrate the effect of spinal manipulation on plasma beta-endorphin levels. Three groups of male subjects were randomly created: the experimental, sham and control groups. All three groups were screened for symptomatology, present use of medications and the present use of innocuous stimulants, such as nicotine and caffeine. A standard protocol involving a 20-min pretest resting period, an intervention and a 40-min test period ensued. The experimental group received a manipulation in the region of the cervical spine; the placebo group received a sham maneuver with no dynamic thrust; the control group received no intervention. Samples were taken by venipuncture at -20, -5, +5, +10 and +30 min. The data were analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance and by Scheffe's post-hoc multiple comparison tests. Plasma beta-endorphin levels were assessed by radioimmune assay technique (according to the method described by Harber and Sutton in 1984). The results of our study demonstrated a small, but statistically significant, increase in serum beta-endorphin levels in the experimental group at the 5-min postintervention point. The levels in the placebo and control groups demonstrated a steady decrease that was distinct from the response in the experimental group.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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