Evolution of mechanisms and behaviour important for pain

ET Walters, ACC Williams - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Our understanding of the biology of pain is limited by our ignorance about its evolution. We
know little about how states in other species showing various degrees of apparent similarity …

Developing modern pain therapies

J Manion, MA Waller, T Clark, JN Massingham… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Chronic pain afflicts as much as 50% of the population at any given time but our methods to
address pain remain limited, ineffective and addictive. In order to develop new therapies an …

Drosophila pain sensitization and modulation unveiled by a novel pain model and analgesic drugs

W Jang, M Oh, EH Cho, M Baek, C Kim - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
In mammals, pain is regulated by the combination of an ascending stimulating and
descending inhibitory pain pathway. It remains an intriguing question whether such pain …

Phylogenetic Analysis Provides Insight Into the Molecular Evolution of Nociception and Pain-Related Proteins

R Zhai, Q Wang - Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Nociception and pain sensation are important neural processes in humans to avoid injury.
Many proteins are involved in nociception and pain sensation in humans; however, the …

Different functions of two putative Drosophila α2δ subunits in the same identified motoneurons

L Heinrich, S Ryglewski - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Voltage gated calcium channels (VGCCs) regulate neuronal excitability and translate activity
into calcium dependent signaling. The α1 subunit of high voltage activated (HVA) VGCCs …

Exaptation and Evolutionary Adaptation in Nociceptor Mechanisms Driving Persistent Pain

ET Walters - Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 2023 - karger.com
Background: Several evolutionary explanations have been proposed for why chronic pain is
a major clinical problem. One is that some mechanisms important for driving chronic pain …

Vitamin B5 is a context-dependent dietary regulator of nociception

Z Hamoudi, C Leung, TM Khuong… - G3: Genes …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Chronic pain has an enormous impact on the quality of life of billions of patients, families,
and caregivers worldwide. Current therapies do not adequately address pain for most …

Positive Preemptive Analgesia Effectiveness of Pregabalin Combined with Celecoxib in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Prospective Controlled Randomized Study

Y Zhou, X Liu, C Ding, B Xiang… - Pain Research and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. The purpose of the present study (a randomized clinical trial) was to evaluate the
preemptive analgesic effects of pregabalin combined with celecoxib in total knee …

[HTML][HTML] Perioperative pregabalin reduced fatigue scores after thoracoscopic pneumonectomy in a RCT of NSCLC patients

Y Zhao, Y Li, L Sun, F Gao, Q Yin… - American Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Postoperative fatigue is prevalent, but non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients receive
poor treatment after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). The main objective of the …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic Potential of Vitamin B Complex in Peripheral Nerve Injury Recovery: An Experimental Rat Model Study

A Kahraman, M Temel, N Atilgan, A Saray, R Dokuyucu - Medicina, 2024 - mdpi.com
Objectives: Vitamin B complexes are frequently used in clinical practice for peripheral nerve
trauma. However, there is a lack of scientific data on their effectiveness. This study aims to …