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 …
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 …
Reciprocal signalling between immunocompetent cells in the central nervous system (CNS) has emerged as a key phenomenon underpinning pathological and chronic pain …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …