Opioid analgesia: recent developments

C Stein - Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Opioids still appear to be most promising among current approaches in the development of
analgesics. Basic knowledge about pathophysiology of clinical pain and novel insights in …

[HTML][HTML] The gut-brain axis and beyond: Microbiome control of spinal cord injury pain in humans and rodents

CA Bannerman, K Douchant, PM Sheth… - Neurobiology of Pain, 2021 - Elsevier
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating injury to the central nervous system in which 60 to
80% of patients experience chronic pain. Unfortunately, this pain is notoriously difficult to …

Human birth tissue products as a non-opioid medicine to inhibit post-surgical pain

C Zhang, Q Huang, NC Ford, N Limjunyawong, Q Lin… - eLife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Pain after surgery causes significant suffering. Opioid analgesics cause severe side effects
and accidental death. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop non-opioid therapies for …

Loperamide, a peripheral Mu-Opioid receptor agonist, attenuates chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain in rats

A Gadepalli, O Ummadisetty, D Chouhan… - International …, 2023 - Elsevier
Opioids are employed in the management of chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain
(CINP) when other pain management approaches have failed and proven ineffective …

John J. Bonica Award Lecture: Peripheral neuronal hyperexcitability: the “low-hanging” target for safe therapeutic strategies in neuropathic pain

SN Raja, M Ringkamp, Y Guan, JN Campbell - Pain, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Neuropathic pain (NP) results from injury to or disease of the somatosensory system. It is
estimated that approximately 7% to 10% of the population and 25% to 30% of individuals …

[HTML][HTML] Peripheral mu-opioid receptor activation by dermorphin [D-Arg2, Lys4](1–4) amide alleviates behavioral and neurobiological aberrations in rat model of …

A Gadepalli, O Ummadisetty, D Chouhan, KE Yadav… - …, 2024 - Elsevier
Paclitaxel, a frequently utilized chemotherapeutic agent, often gives rise to severe and
distressing sensory neuropathy in patients undergoing chemotherapy. Unfortunately, current …

Spinal cord stimulation enhances microglial activation in the spinal cord of nerve-injured rats

B Shu, SQ He, Y Guan - Neuroscience Bulletin, 2020 - Springer
Microglia can modulate spinal nociceptive transmission. Yet, their role in spinal cord
stimulation (SCS)-induced pain inhibition is unclear. Here, we examined how SCS affects …

Depolarization-dependent C-Raf signaling promotes hyperexcitability and reduces opioid sensitivity of isolated nociceptors after spinal cord injury

AG Carbajal, A Bavencoffe, ET Walters… - Journal of …, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
Chronic pain caused by spinal cord injury (SCI) is notoriously resistant to treatment,
particularly by opioids. After SCI, DRG neurons show hyperactivity and chronic …

Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid ameliorates pain sensitization in central neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury via the HDAC5/NEDD4/SCN9A Axis

C Wang, R Chen, X Zhu, X Zhang - Neurochemical Research, 2023 - Springer
Pain sensitization in spinal cord injury (SCI)-induced central neuropathic pain has been a
research target. Additionally, suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) has been reported to …

Spinal cord injury in mice affects central and peripheral pathology in a severity-dependent manner

CA Bannerman, K Douchant, JP Segal, M Knezic… - Pain, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Chronic pain is a common medical complication experienced by those living with spinal cord
injury (SCI) and leads to worsened quality of life. The pathophysiology of SCI pain is poorly …