An acute loss of smell emerged as a striking symptom present in roughly half of the people infected with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)virus in the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemi...
funded by the COVID-19 Project of Shaanxi Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine[SZY-KJCYC-2020-YJ002];the COVID-19 Project of National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine[2020ZYLCYJ06-4];and the CACMS Innovation Fund[CI2021A00704].
Objective The scientific community knows little about the long-term influence of coronavirus disease2019(COVID-19) on olfactory dysfunction(OD). With the COVID-19 pandemic ongoing worldwide, the risk of imported cases...
Patients with aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease(AERD)experience a severe and recalcitrant form of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis(CRSwNP)and asthma,which are exacerbated by aspirin/NSAID ingestion.As...
Introduction As cases of the novel coronavirus,also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-Cov-2)continue to rise,the way in which healthcare is practiced has been markedly impacted.The presence...
Funding agencies:Sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness/ERDF(grant no.SAF2016–75768-R);the Autonomous Government of Castilla-La Mancha/ERDF(grant no.SBPLY/17/180501/000430)to AMM.
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases are the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorders.Their etiologies are idiopathic,and treatments are symptomatic and orientated towards cognitive or motor deficits.Neuropatholog...
supported by research grants to IG from Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo(FAPESP 2007/53732-8);Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico(CNPq 484869/2012-4);CEPID Redoxoma(FAPESP 2013/07937-8)
The sense of smell is important for human quality of life. This sophisticated sensorial system relies on the detection of odorant molecules that engage receptors expressed in the cilia of dedicated neurons that consti...
Although hundreds of thousands of patients seek medical help annually for disor-ders of taste and smell, relatively few medical practitioners quantitatively test their patients' chemosensory function, taking their com...
Olfactory dysfunction is a major symptom reported by patients with chronic rhino-sinusitis (CRS). Surgical treatment of this disease requires close surveillance of such dysfunc-tion because of wide ranging implication...
Typical Parkinsonian symptoms consist of bradykinesia plus rigidity and/or resting tremor. Some time later postural instability occurs. Pre-motor symptoms such as hyposmia, constipation, REM sleep behavior disorder an...
Methods: Asystematic literature search was performed using PUBMED for all English articles up to April 2014. Although this review mainly focuses on published human studies, it also draws attention to where future rese...