Proceedings of the Naples Pain Conference (NPC)

PAIN in ANIMALS Advances in perioperative pain recognition and management in animals Assessment of the dose-dependent effect of butorphanol and morphine on the minimum anaesthetic concentration of isoflurane in chickens Analgesic management of chronic osteoarthritic pain Neuropathic pain in animals: neurophysiological considerations and therapeutical approach Pain assessment in internal medical diseases in dog: preliminary observations Target Controlled Infusion (TCI) of opioids: an overview Multimodal Sedation and Pain Management in the Equine Dental Patient Pain managment for gastric dilatation-volvulus syndrome and treatment in dogs Value of local anesthesia as means of preemptive analgesia in small animal surgery Lidocaine constant rate infusion for surgical analgesia in dogs Attitude of Italian veterinarians interested in small animal surgery to post-operative pain in canine and feline patients: preliminary results from a web-based survey ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA Use of acupuncture for analgesia. What is feasible? Non - conventional treatment options for surgical and post -operative analgesia in dogs Analgesic effect of electro-acupuncture during TPLO in dog Fibromyalgia: how to treat by acupuncture Pain therapy by acupuncture in sport horses ANALGESIA UPDATE in MAN Pain assessment in non-comunicating critically ill patients Pain pathophysiology: an update by Functional Magnetic Resonance Motor Cortex Stimulation (MCS) and Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) as means of pain treatment CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF PAIN THERAPY Acute pain in children Cancer pain treatment Pain management in the intensive care unit Thoracic epidural analgesia Spinal cord stimulation in chronic pain control Emotional and physical pain in women with neurological pain related conditions: headache, fibromyalgia and RLS TRASLATIONAL RESEARCH Adequate depth of anaesthesia - How can we avoid conscious perception of pain during experimental surgery in laboratory animals? Analgesic refinement of painful experiments in laboratory animals MR analyses of gliosis and glutamate excitotoxicity in a mouse neuropathic pain model Analgesic strategy in swine experimental surgery models IL BENESSERE NEGLI ANIMALI DA REDDITO La Legislazione in vigore sul benessere degli animali da reddito L’approccio immunologico alla valutazione del benessere animale Massimo Amadori Problemi pratici di adattamento all'ambiente delle bovine da latte con particolare riferimento allo stress da caldo Valutazione del benessere animale in allevamento con il metodo Welfare Quality® Adattamento all’ambiente di allevamento della specie bufalina ALTERNATIVE PAIN TREATMENTS Effect of autonomic nervous system dysfunction on sudden death in ischemic patients with anginal syndrome died during electrocardiographic monitoring in ICU Ozone therapy in the treatment of pain in veterinary medicine Action of oxygen-ozone mixture on activity of cytokines Analgesic effect of oxygen-ozone therapy in arterial obstructive pathology OPIOID THERAPY and PAIN MEASUREMENT Endocrine consequences of opioid therapy Multimodal analgesia: how and why? Mechanisms underlying analgesic tolerance and hyperalgesia to opioids Pelvic pain evaluation in humans LIPID SIGNALLING in PAIN CONTROL: GENERAL CONCEPTS Endocannabinoid regulation of anxiety and mood Role of neurosterioids in the analgesic and anti-hyperalgesic effects of PEA Palmitoylethanolamide induces neurosteroids synthesis in C6 cells trough PPAR-ALPHA dependent mechanism Use of palmitoylethanolamide (PEA) for controlling pain in small animal veterinary medicine: pre-clinical and clinical data LIPID SIGNALLING in PAIN CONTROL: CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR TARGETS Role of TRP channels in pain and their interactions with phytocannabinoids and endocannabinoids Involvement of opioid and cannabinoid receptors in the oxytocin-induced antihyperalgesic effect following ICV administration Central PPAR-alpha activation reduces pain and hyperalgesia in mice via nuclear factor kB inhibition Neuropathic pain: looking for a disease modifying agent Endocrine and behavioural effects of transdermal buprenorphine in pain-suffering women of different reproductive ages PERIPHERAL, SPINAL AND SUPRASPINAL MECHANISMS OF PAIN CONTROL Forebrain pain mechanisms Anesthetic - dependent actions on descending control of the spinothalamic tract Microglia activation in neuropathic pain is regulated by cannabinoid system The palmitoylethanolamide: an important tool for pain management