Astrocytes in chronic pain and itch

RR Ji, CR Donnelly, M Nedergaard - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Astrocytes are critical for maintaining the homeostasis of the CNS. Increasing evidence
suggests that a number of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, including chronic …

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 …

Polony gels enable amplifiable DNA stamping and spatial transcriptomics of chronic pain

X Fu, L Sun, R Dong, JY Chen, R Silakit, LF Condon… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Methods for acquiring spatially resolved omics data from complex tissues use barcoded
DNA arrays of low-to sub-micrometer features to achieve single-cell resolution. However …

Positive allosteric mechanisms of adenosine A1 receptor-mediated analgesia

CJ Draper-Joyce, R Bhola, J Wang, A Bhattarai… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The adenosine A1 receptor (A1R) is a promising therapeutic target for non-opioid analgesic
agents to treat neuropathic pain,. However, development of analgesic orthosteric A1R …

[HTML][HTML] The transition of acute postoperative pain to chronic pain: an integrative overview of research on mechanisms

CR Chapman, CJ Vierck - The Journal of pain, 2017 - Elsevier
The nature of the transition from acute to chronic pain still eludes explanation, but chronic
pain resulting from surgery provides a natural experiment that invites clinical …

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 …

The endogenous cannabinoid system: a budding source of targets for treating inflammatory and neuropathic pain

G Donvito, SR Nass, JL Wilkerson, ZA Curry… - …, 2018 - nature.com
A great need exists for the development of new medications to treat pain resulting from
various disease states and types of injury. Given that the endogenous cannabinoid (that is …

Neuropathic pain: mechanism-based therapeutics

K Bannister, J Sachau, R Baron… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Neuropathic pain (NeP) can result from sources as varied as nerve compression,
channelopathies, autoimmune disease, and incision. By identifying the neurobiological …

Antidepressants and gabapentinoids in neuropathic pain: mechanistic insights

M Kremer, E Salvat, A Muller, I Yalcin, M Barrot - Neuroscience, 2016 - Elsevier
Neuropathic pain arises as a consequence of a lesion or disease affecting the
somatosensory system. It is generally chronic and challenging to treat. The recommended …

Quantitative assessment of tactile allodynia in the rat paw

SR Chaplan, FW Bach, JW Pogrel, JM Chung… - Journal of neuroscience …, 1994 - Elsevier
We applied and validated a quantitative allodynia assessment technique, using a recently
developed rat surgical neuropathy model wherein nocifensive behaviors are evoked by light …