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Prospectively Surveying Health-Related Quality of Life and Symptom Relief in a Lot-Based Sample of Medical Cannabis-Using Patients in Urban Washington State Reveals Managed Chronic Illness and Debility by Aggarwal, S. K., Carter, G. T., Sullivan, M. D., Zumbrunnen, C., Morrill, R., Mayer, J. D.

“…Objectives: To characterize health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in medical cannabis patients. Methods: Short Form 36 (SF-36) Physical Health Component Score…”
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Geography, ecology and emerging infectious diseases by MAYER, J. D

“…Emerging infectious diseases are the focus of increased attention and even alarm in the scholarly and popular literature. The emergence of new diseases and the…”
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Acupuncture: An Evidence-Based Review of the Clinical Literature by Mayer, David J

“…This chapter reviews the experimental literature on the effects of acupuncture treatment. The review covers the 14 medical conditions for which the National…”
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Two distinctive antinociceptive systems in rats with pathological pain by Mao, J, Price, D.D, Lu, J, Keniston, L, Mayer, D.J

“…A common obstacle in clinical management of pathological pain is the poor response to opioid analgesics. We now report that Δ 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ…”
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Biological mechanisms of acupuncture by Mayer, D J

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Oral administration of dextromethorphan prevents the development of morphine tolerance and dependence in rats by Mao, J, Price, D D, Caruso, F S, Mayer, D J

“…Combined oral administration of morphine sulfate (MS) and the over-the-counter antitussive drug and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist dextromethorphan…”
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Differential roles of NMDA and non-NMDA receptor activation in induction and maintenance of thermal hyperalgesia in rats with painful peripheral mononeuropathy by Mao, J, Price, D D, Hayes, R L, Lu, J, Mayer, D J

“…Central activation of excitatory amino acid receptors has been implicated in neuropathic pain following nerve injury. In a rat model of painful peripheral…”
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Intrathecal MK-801 and local nerve anesthesia synergistically reduce nociceptive behaviors in rats with experimental peripheral mononeuropathy by Mao, J, Price, D D, Mayer, D J, Lu, J, Hayes, R L

“…The hyperalgesia and spontaneous pain that occur following peripheral nerve injury may be related to abnormal peripheral input or altered central activity, or…”
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Spinal Cord Neuroplasticity following Repeated Opioid Exposure and Its Relation to Pathological Pain by Mao, Jianren, Mayer, David J.

“…: Convincing evidence has accumulated that indicates neuroplastic changes within the spinal cord in response to repeated exposure to opioids. Such neuroplastic…”
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Patterns of increased brain activity indicative of pain in a rat model of peripheral mononeuropathy by Mao, J, Mayer, DJ, Price, DD

“…Regional changes in brain neural activity were examined in rats with painful peripheral mononeuropathy (chronic constrictive injury, CCI) by using the fully…”
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Association of meteorological and geographical factors and risk of initial Pseudomonas aeruginosa acquisition in young children with cystic fibrosis by PSOTER, K. J., DE ROOS, A. J., WAKEFIELD, J., MAYER, J. D., BRYAN, M., ROSENFELD, M.

“…Initial infection with the sentinel respiratory pathogen in children with cystic fibrosis (CF), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa), is generally with environmental…”
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The central nucleus of the amygdala contributes to the production of morphine antinociception in the rat tail-flick test by Manning, BH, Mayer, DJ

“…Current models of endogenous pain control circuitry emphasize neural substrates within the brainstem and spinal cord. We have recently shown, however, that the…”
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Thermal hyperalgesia in association with the development of morphine tolerance in rats: roles of excitatory amino acid receptors and protein kinase C by Mao, J, Price, DD, Mayer, DJ

“…In a rat model of morphine tolerance, we examined the hypotheses that thermal hyperalgesia to radiant heat develops in association with the development of…”
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Wide dynamic range but not nociceptive-specific neurons encode multidimensional features of prolonged repetitive heat pain by Coghill, R C, Mayer, D J, Price, D D

“…1. To better characterize temporal and spatial mechanisms involved in the coding of prolonged nociceptive stimuli in the spinal cord, the responses of dorsal…”
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NMDA-receptor antagonists and opioid receptor interactions as related to analgesia and tolerance by Price, D D, Mayer, D J, Mao, J, Caruso, F S

“…A model proposing that N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor and opioid receptor mechanisms overlap and interact within the same dorsal horn nociceptive neurons…”
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The Experience and Meta-Experience of Mood by Mayer, John D, Gaschke, Yvonne N

“…Mood experience is comprised of at least two elements: the direct experience of the mood and a meta-level of experience that consists of thoughts and feelings…”
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Experimental mononeuropathy reduces the antinociceptive effects of morphine: implications for common intracellular mechanisms involved in morphine tolerance and neuropathic pain by Mao, Jianren, Price, Donald D, Mayer, David J

“…Recent evidence suggests that hyperalgesia and morphine tolerance, two seemingly unrelated phenomena, have in common certain neural substrates such as…”
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The inhibition of nitric oxide-activated poly(ADP-ribose) synthetase attenuates transsynaptic alteration of spinal cord dorsal horn neurons and neuropathic pain in the rat by Mao, J, Price, D D, Zhu, J, Lu, J, Mayer, D J

“…Transsynaptic alteration of spinal cord dorsal horn neurons characterized by hyperchromatosis of cytoplasm and nucleoplasm (so-called 'dark' neurons) occurs in…”
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Increases in protein kinase C gamma immunoreactivity in the spinal cord of rats associated with tolerance to the analgesic effects of morphine by Mao, Jianren, Price, Donald D., Phillips, Linda L., Lu, Juan, Mayer, David J.

“…Our previous studies have indicated a critical role of protein kinase C (PKC) in intracellular mechanisms of tolerance to morphine analgesia. In the present…”
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Effects of the combined oral administration of NSAIDs and dextromethorphan on behavioral symptoms indicative of arthritic pain in rats by Price, D D, Mao, J, Lu, J, Caruso, F S, Frenk, H, Mayer, D J

“…The effects of combined single oral treatments with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and the non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor…”
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