Universitat Internacional de Catalunya 2 articles published in JoVE Neuroscience Using Home-based, Remotely Supervised, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Phantom Limb Pain Kevin Pacheco-Barrios*1,2, Daniela Martinez-Magallanes*1, Cristina Xicota Naqui1,3, Marianna Daibes1, Elly Pichardo1, Alejandra Cardenas-Rojas1, David Crandell4, Anahita Dua5, Abhishek Datta6,7, Wolnei Caumo8,9,10, Felipe Fregni1 1Neuromodulation Center and Center for Clinical Research Learning, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 2Vicerrectorado de Investigación, Unidad de Investigación para la Generación y Síntesis de Evidencias en Salud, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, 3Nursing Department, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, 4Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 5Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 6Research and Development, Soterix Medical, 7City College of New York, 8Post-Graduate Program in Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), 9Laboratory of Pain & Neuromodulation, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), 10Pain and Palliative Care Service, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) The goal of this study is to describe a protocol for the home-based delivery of remotely supervised transcranial direct current stimulation (RS-tDCS) conserving the standard procedures of in-clinic practice, including safety, reproducibility, and tolerability. The participants included will be patients with phantom limb pain (PLP). Biology Bone Conditioned Medium: Preparation and Bioassay Jordi Caballé-Serrano1,2,3, Kosaku Sawada2,5, Guenther Schuldt Filho1,2,6, Dieter D. Bosshardt1,4, Daniel Buser1, Reinhard Gruber1,2 1Department of Oral Surgery and Stomatology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, 2Laboratory of Oral Cell Biology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, 3Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dental Medicine, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, 4Robert K. Schenk Laboratory of Oral Histology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, 5Department of Cranio Maxillofacial Surgery, Inselspital, University of Bern, 6Department of Implant Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina We describe here how to prepare bone-conditioned medium (BCM) and test its activity in vitro.
