Arachidonic acid (AA)-derived eicosanoids belong to a complex family of lipid mediators that
regulate a wide variety of physiological responses and pathological processes. They are …

Perioperative opioids increase postoperative pain and morphine requirement, suggesting
acute opioid tolerance. Furthermore, opioids elicit N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA)-dependent …

Background Tissue damage may produce hyperalgesia, allodynia, and persistent pain. The
authors recently reported that fentanyl elicits analgesia but also activates N-methyl-D-…

Context: Neither precise evaluation of pertinent thresholds nor comparison of the diagnostic
performance of late-night salivary cortisol (NSC) between inpatient and outpatient settings …

Context Inferior petrosal sinus sampling (IPSS) is used to diagnose Cushing’s disease (CD)
when dexamethasone-suppression and CRH tests, and pituitary magnetic resonance …

It is difficult to conceive that tolerance and sensitization processes, two apparently opposite
phenomena, can concomitantly modify one given biological process, ie, the processing of …

Context Severe Cushing's syndrome elicited by ectopic ACTH syndrome (EAS) or adrenal
carcinoma (ACC) can threaten life in the short term. The effectiveness of oral administration of …

Functional overreaching (F-OR) induced by heavy load endurance training programs has
been associated with reduced heart rate values both at rest and during exercise. Because this …

Aims Assess the impact of persistent/permanent atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation on endocrine
and mechanical cardiac functions. Methods and results In all, 43 patients (40 males, 53 ± 12 …

In order to diagnose neuroblastomas, we assayed the three adrenal hormones and five of
their metabolites by high-performance liquid chromatography followed by electrochemical …