Oliver Kent Glass

Journal Article PLoS One · 2025 OBJECTIVE: Acupuncture is an evidence-based pain treatment in clinic settings, but its optimal delivery has not been established in emergency departments (EDs). As part of an adaptive pragmatic randomized controlled trial of ED acupuncture for acute muscul ... Full text Link to item Cite

An Adaptive Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Emergency Department Acupuncture for Acute Musculoskeletal Pain Management.

Journal Article Ann Emerg Med · October 2024 STUDY OBJECTIVE: Acute musculoskeletal pain in emergency department (ED) patients is frequently severe and challenging to treat with medications alone. The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of adding E ... Full text Link to item Cite

A 15-year consolidated overview of data in over 6000 patients from the Transthyretin Amyloidosis Outcomes Survey (THAOS).

Journal Article Orphanet J Rare Dis · November 10, 2023 BACKGROUND: Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR amyloidosis) is a progressive, multisystemic, life-threatening disease resulting from the deposition of variant or wild-type (ATTRwt amyloidosis) transthyretin amyloid fibrils in various tissues and organs. METHO ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Acupuncture for acute musculoskeletal pain management in the emergency department and continuity clinic: a protocol for an adaptive pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

Journal Article BMJ Open · September 23, 2022 INTRODUCTION: Chronic musculoskeletal pain causes a significant burden on health and quality of life and may result from inadequate treatment of acute musculoskeletal pain. The emergency department (ED) represents a novel setting in which to test non-pharm ... Full text Link to item Cite

Perceptions of Exercise and Its Challenges in Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Survey-Based Study.

Journal Article Hepatol Commun · February 2022 Exercise is a foundational treatment for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD); however, the majority of patients are unable to initiate and maintain effective exercise habits and remain at increased risk for progressive liver disease. Barriers and limi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Feasibility, acceptability, and potential effectiveness of an online expressive writing intervention for COVID-19 resilience.

Journal Article Complement Ther Clin Pract · November 2021 BACKGROUND & PURPOSE: The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted mental health in the general population. In this trial, our objective was to assess whether a 6-week expressive writing intervention improves resilience in a sample from the general popula ... Full text Link to item Cite

Standardisation of diet and exercise in clinical trials of NAFLD-NASH: Recommendations from the Liver Forum.

Journal Article Journal of hepatology · September 2020 Lifestyle modification is the foundation of treatment recommendations for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The design of clinical trials in NASH may be impeded by the lack of a systematic approach to ident ... Full text Cite

Efficacy and Safety of Massage for Osteoarthritis of the Knee: a Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article Journal of general internal medicine · March 2019 BackgroundCurrent treatment options for knee osteoarthritis have limited effectiveness and potentially adverse side effects. Massage may offer a safe and effective complement to the management of knee osteoarthritis.ObjectiveExamine effec ... Full text Cite

Expressive writing to improve resilience to trauma: A clinical feasibility trial.

Journal Article Complement Ther Clin Pract · February 2019 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Trauma is highly prevalent, with estimates that up to 90% of the U.S. population have been exposed to a traumatic event. The adverse health consequences of trauma exposure are diverse and often long-lasting. While expressive writing ... Full text Link to item Cite

Serum Interleukin-8, Osteopontin, and Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein 1 Are Associated With Hepatic Fibrosis in Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Journal Article Hepatol Commun · November 2018 The severity of hepatic fibrosis is the primary predictor of liver-related morbidity and mortality in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Unfortunately, noninvasive serum biomarkers for NAFLD-associated fibrosis are limited. We analyzed ... Full text Link to item Cite

Exercise training as treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Journal Article Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology · December 1, 2017 Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) is a growing health epidemic in developed countries with increased prevalence in obese and diabetic populations. Exercise is an established and essential component of lifestyle modification for NAFLD disease managem ... Full text Cite

Differential response to exercise in claudin-low breast cancer.

Journal Article Oncotarget · November 24, 2017 Exposure to exercise following a breast cancer diagnosis is associated with reductions in the risk of recurrence. However, it is not known whether breast cancers within the same molecular-intrinsic subtype respond differently to exercise. Syngeneic mouse m ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Resistance exercise training in patients with genitourinary cancers to mitigate treatment-related skeletal muscle loss.

Journal Article Clin Adv Hematol Oncol · June 2016 The use of targeted therapies in patients with genitourinary malignancies has significantly improved outcomes. For example, androgen receptor (AR) pathway inhibitors have improved outcomes for patients with prostate cancer, and antiangiogenic agents have i ... Link to item Cite

Effect of aerobic training on the host systemic milieu in patients with solid tumours: an exploratory correlative study.

Journal Article Br J Cancer · March 3, 2015 BACKGROUND: Few studies have investigated the effects of exercise on modulation of host factors in cancer patients. We investigated the efficacy of chronic aerobic training on multiple host-related effector pathways in patients with solid tumours. PATIENTS ... Full text Link to item Cite

Abstract 1376: Exercise alters breast cancer phenotype through distinct reductions in host-derived proinflammatory growth factor ligands.

Conference Cancer Research · April 15, 2013 AbstractIt is becoming increasingly recognized that host (systemic) and tumor cell release of proinflammatory growth factors are critical determinants of cancer progression and therapeutic response in patien ... Full text Cite

Increasing vaccine potency through exosome antigen targeting.

Journal Article Vaccine · November 21, 2011 While many tumor associated antigens (TAAs) have been identified in human cancers, efforts to develop efficient TAA "cancer vaccines" using classical vaccine approaches have been largely ineffective. Recently, a process to specifically target proteins to e ... Full text Link to item Cite

HER2 overexpression elicits a proinflammatory IL-6 autocrine signaling loop that is critical for tumorigenesis.

Journal Article Cancer Res · July 1, 2011 HER2 overexpression occurs in approximately 25% of breast cancers, where it correlates with poor prognosis. Likewise, systemic inflammation in breast cancer correlates with poor prognosis, although the process is not understood. In this study, we explored ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ligand-independent toll-like receptor signals generated by ectopic overexpression of MyD88 generate local and systemic antitumor immunity.

Journal Article Cancer Res · September 15, 2010 Although critical for initiating and regulating immune responses, the therapeutic use of individual cytokines as anticancer immunotherapeutic agents has achieved only modest clinical success. Consequently, many current strategies have focused on the use of ... Full text Link to item Cite

An adenoviral vaccine encoding full-length inactivated human Her2 exhibits potent immunogenicty and enhanced therapeutic efficacy without oncogenicity.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · March 1, 2010 PURPOSE: Overexpression of the breast cancer oncogene HER2 correlates with poor survival. Current HER2-directed therapies confer limited clinical benefits and most patients experience progressive disease. Because refractory tumors remain strongly HER2+, va ... Full text Link to item Cite

Optimization of vaccine responses with an E1, E2b and E3-deleted Ad5 vector circumvents pre-existing anti-vector immunity.

Journal Article Cancer Gene Ther · September 2009 Recombinant serotype 5 adenovirus (Ad5) vectors lacking E1 expression induce robust immune responses against encoded transgenes in pre-clinical models, but have muted responses in human trials because of widespread pre-existing anti-adenovirus immunity. At ... Full text Link to item Cite

Replication-attenuated Human Adenoviral Type 4 vectors elicit capsid dependent enhanced innate immune responses that are partially dependent upon interactions with the complement system.

Journal Article Virology · May 10, 2008 Human Adenovirus Type 4 (HAdV-4) is responsible for epidemic outbreaks of Acute Respiratory Disease (especially in military recruits), and is known to cause significant morbidity with several reported cases of mortality. However, we do not understand why t ... Full text Link to item Cite