Dr. James Wei-tzer Hu
Family Practitioner
239 W Center St Shenandoah PA, 17976About
Dr. James Hu is a family practitioner practicing in Shenandoah, PA. Dr. Hu specializes in comprehensive health care for people of all ages. In addition to diagnosing and treating illnesses, family practitioners also put focus on preventative care with routine checkups, tests and personalized coaching on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Hu possesses immense general knowledge on maintaining health and today, family practitioners provide more care for the underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- C-fiber depletion alters response properties of neurons in trigeminal nucleus
- Development of inflammation after application of mustard oil or glutamate to the rat temporomandibular joint.
- Enhancement of reflexes by naloxone in spinal cats.
- Activation of peripheral GABAA receptors inhibits temporomandibular joint-evoked jaw muscle activity.
- Effects of pre-emptive local anaesthesia on tooth pulp deafferentation-induced neuroplastic changes in cat trigeminal brainstem neurones.
- Jaw electromyographic activity induced by the application of algesic chemicals to the rat tooth pulp.
- Responses of medullary dorsal horn neurons to corneal stimulation by CO(2) pulses in the rat.
- Effects of GABA receptor antagonist on trigeminal caudalis nociceptive neurons in normal and neonatally capsaicin-treated rats.
- Cornea-responsive medullary dorsal horn neurons: modulation by local opioids and projections to thalamus and brain stem.
- Parabrachial area and nucleus raphe magnus inhibition of corneal units in rostral and caudal portions of trigeminal subnucleus caudalis in the rat.
- c-fos expression in trigeminal spinal nucleus after electrical stimulation of the hypoglossal nerve in the rat.
- Trigeminal subnucleus caudalis: beyond homologies with the spinal dorsal horn.
- Involvement of GABA(A) receptor in modulation of jaw muscle activity evoked by mustard oil application to the rat temporomandibular joint.
- Modulation of neuronal activity in the nucleus raphé magnus by the 5-HT(1)-receptor agonist naratriptan in rat.
- Local anesthesia does not block mustard-oil-induced temporomandibular inflammation.
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