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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,609 Views
19 Pages

Disrupted Neural Regeneration in Dry Eye Secondary to Ankylosing Spondylitis—With a Theoretical Link between Piezo2 Channelopathy and Gateway Reflex, WDR Neurons, and Flare-Ups

  • Balázs Sonkodi,
  • László Marsovszky,
  • Anita Csorba,
  • Attila Balog,
  • Bence Kopper,
  • Anikó Keller-Pintér,
  • Zoltán Zsolt Nagy and
  • Miklós D. Resch

22 October 2023

This study aimed at analyzing the corneal neural regeneration in ankylosing spondylitis patients using in vivo corneal confocal microscopy in correlation with Langerhans cell density, morphology, and dry eye parameters. Approximately 24 ankylosing sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,039 Views
19 Pages

21 October 2025

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a multisystem progressive neurodegenerative disease. A recent theory of ALS onsetting pathogenesis proposed that the initiating primary damage is an acquired irreversible intrafusal proprioceptive terminal PIEZO...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,824 Views
18 Pages

27 February 2023

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a lethal neurodegenerative multisystem disease, with an unknown pathomechanism, resulting in progressive motoneuron loss. In 90–95% of cases, ALS is sporadic, but close to 10% of ALS is familial with inher...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,074 Views
16 Pages

12 March 2024

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a mysterious lethal multisystem neurodegenerative disease that gradually leads to the progressive loss of motor neurons. A recent non-contact dying-back injury mechanism theory for ALS proposed that the primary...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
6 Citations
10,302 Views
17 Pages

Unaccustomed and/or strenuous eccentric contractions are known to cause delayed-onset muscle soreness. In spite of this fact, their exact cause and mechanism have been unknown for more than 120 years. The exploration of the diverse functionality of t...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,364 Views
20 Pages

8 October 2022

Psoriasis is considered a multifactorial and heterogeneous systemic disease with many underlying pathologic mechanisms having been elucidated; however, the pathomechanism is far from entirely known. This opinion article will demonstrate the potential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,357 Views
14 Pages

Evidence of Disruption in Neural Regeneration in Dry Eye Secondary to Rheumatoid Arthritis

  • Balázs Sonkodi,
  • Anita Csorba,
  • László Marsovszky,
  • Attila Balog,
  • Bence Kopper,
  • Zoltán Zsolt Nagy and
  • Miklós D. Resch

The purpose of our study was to analyze abnormal neural regeneration activity in the cornea through means of confocal microscopy in rheumatoid arthritis patients with concomitant dry eye disease. We examined 40 rheumatoid arthritis patients with vari...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,870 Views
16 Pages

18 December 2023

This opinion manuscript outlines how the hippocampal theta rhythm could receive two novel peripheral inputs. One of the ways this could be achieved is through Piezo2 channels and atypical hippocampal-like metabotropic glutamate receptors coupled to p...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,597 Views
11 Pages

The current opinion paper puts into perspective how altered microbiota transplanted from Alzheimer’s patients initiates the impairment of the microbiota–gut–brain axis of a healthy recipient, leading to impaired cognition primarily...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,313 Views
9 Pages

31 January 2025

The current opinion manuscript posits that not only Piezo2 voltage block, but also proton affinity and availability in relation to Piezo2, a mechanically gated ion channel, may count in the mediation of pain and its sensitivity. Moreover, this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,290 Views
17 Pages

Neural Regeneration in Dry Eye Secondary to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Is Also Disrupted like in Rheumatoid Arthritis, but in a Progressive Fashion

  • Balázs Sonkodi,
  • László Marsovszky,
  • Anita Csorba,
  • Attila Balog,
  • Bence Kopper,
  • Zoltán Zsolt Nagy and
  • Miklós D. Resch

Our objective in this study was to analyze the aberrant neural regeneration activity in the cornea by means of in vivo confocal microscopy in systemic lupus erythematosus patients with concurrent dry eye disease. We examined 29 systemic lupus erythem...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,529 Views
8 Pages

12 August 2022

Osteoporosis is a disorder, with a largely unknown pathomechanism, that is often marked as a “silent thief”, because it usually only becomes undisguised when fractures occur. This implies that the pathological damage occurs earlier than t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
979 Views
19 Pages

21 November 2025

Background: Biomechanical factors behind non-contact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in soccer and handball are still not fully understood. Unfortunately, ACL injuries more frequently appear in game situations. Aim: To describe a possible ACL...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,091 Views
10 Pages

21 November 2024

Oxaliplatin induces acute neuropathy within a few hours post-treatment, with symptoms persisting for several days. Delayed onset muscle soreness also causes the delayed onset of mechanical pain sensation starting at about 6–8 h and lasting up t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,794 Views
11 Pages

27 October 2023

The aim of the study was to investigate any indication of diminished orthostatic tolerance as a result of fatiguing intensive acute concentric exercise with a successive isometric wall-sit followed by an orthostatic stress test, with a special focus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,428 Views
23 Pages

Heart Rate Variability Alterations During Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness-Inducing Exercise—With Piezo2 Interpretation

  • Gergely Langmár,
  • Tekla Sümegi,
  • Benjámin Fülöp,
  • Lilla Pozsgai,
  • Tamás Mocsai,
  • Miklós Tóth,
  • Levente Rácz,
  • Bence Kopper,
  • András Dér and
  • Balázs Sonkodi
  • + 1 author

10 August 2025

Heart rate variability (HRV) is often modulated by pain; therefore, the objective of this study was to assess whether the induction of delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is already affected by HRV alterations during exercise, in spite of the fact t...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,512 Views
13 Pages

The recent identification of early-onset mutational signatures with geographic variations by Diaz-Gay et al. is a significant finding, since early-onset colorectal cancer has emerged as an alarming public health challenge in the past two decades, and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,027 Views
15 Pages

31 August 2022

Piezo2 transmembrane excitatory mechanosensitive ion channels were identified as the principal mechanotransduction channels for proprioception. Recently, it was postulated that Piezo2 channels could be acutely microdamaged on an autologous basis at p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,117 Views
10 Pages

Unaccustomed or strenuous eccentric exercise is known to cause delayed-onset muscle soreness. A recent hypothesis postulated that mechano-energetic microinjury of the primary afferent sensory neuron terminals in the muscle spindles, namely a transien...