Microglia in pain: detrimental and protective roles in pathogenesis and resolution of pain

G Chen, YQ Zhang, YJ Qadri, CN Serhan, RR Ji - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The previous decade has seen a rapid increase in microglial studies on pain, with a unique
focus on microgliosis in the spinal cord after nerve injury and neuropathic pain. Numerous …

Microglia in neuropathic pain: cellular and molecular mechanisms and therapeutic potential

K Inoue, M Tsuda - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Acute nociceptive pain is a key defence system that enables the detection of danger signals
that threaten homeostasis and survival. However, chronic pain (such as the neuropathic …

Emerging targets in neuroinflammation-driven chronic pain

RR Ji, ZZ Xu, YJ Gao - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
Current analgesics predominately modulate pain transduction and transmission in neurons
and have limited success in controlling disease progression. Accumulating evidence …

Pathological pain and the neuroimmune interface

PM Grace, MR Hutchinson, SF Maier… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Reciprocal signalling between immunocompetent cells in the central nervous system (CNS)
has emerged as a key phenomenon underpinning pathological and chronic pain …

Glia and pain: is chronic pain a gliopathy?

RR Ji, T Berta, M Nedergaard - Pain®, 2013 - Elsevier
Activation of glial cells and neuro–glial interactions are emerging as key mechanisms
underlying chronic pain. Accumulating evidence has implicated 3 types of glial cells in the …

International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. LXXXIX. Update on the extended family of chemokine receptors and introducing a new nomenclature for …

F Bachelerie, A Ben-Baruch, AM Burkhardt… - Pharmacological …, 2014 - Elsevier
Sixteen years ago, the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Pharmacology
approved a system for naming human seven-transmembrane (7TM) G protein-coupled …

Morphine paradoxically prolongs neuropathic pain in rats by amplifying spinal NLRP3 inflammasome activation

PM Grace, KA Strand, EL Galer… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Opioid use for pain management has dramatically increased, with little assessment of
potential pathophysiological consequences for the primary pain condition. Here, a short …

Repertoire of microglial and macrophage responses after spinal cord injury

S David, A Kroner - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2011 - nature.com
Macrophages from the peripheral circulation and those derived from resident microglia are
among the main effector cells of the inflammatory response that follows spinal cord trauma …

Analysis of the immune response to sciatic nerve injury identifies efferocytosis as a key mechanism of nerve debridement

AL Kalinski, C Yoon, LD Huffman, PC Duncker… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Sciatic nerve crush injury triggers sterile inflammation within the distal nerve and axotomized
dorsal root ganglia (DRGs). Granulocytes and pro-inflammatory Ly6Chigh monocytes …

Microglia during development and aging

GJ Harry - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2013 - Elsevier
Microglia are critical nervous system-specific cells influencing brain development,
maintenance of the neural environment, response to injury, and repair. They contribute to …