Central sensitisation in chronic pain conditions: latest discoveries and their potential for precision medicine

J Nijs, SZ George, DJ Clauw… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Chronic pain is a leading cause of disability globally and associated with enormous health-
care costs. The discrepancy between the extent of tissue damage and the magnitude of …

Immune-mediated inflammatory disease therapeutics: past, present and future

IB McInnes, EM Gravallese - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases are common and clinically diverse. Although they
are currently incurable, the therapeutic armamentarium for immune-mediated inflammatory …

Inflammation from peripheral organs to the brain: how does systemic inflammation cause neuroinflammation?

Y Sun, Y Koyama, S Shimada - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As inflammation in the brain contributes to several neurological and psychiatric diseases,
the cause of neuroinflammation is being widely studied. The causes of neuroinflammation …

Persistent inflammatory and non-inflammatory mechanisms in refractory rheumatoid arthritis

MH Buch, S Eyre, D McGonagle - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2021 - nature.com
Despite nearly three decades of advances in the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a
substantial minority of patients are exposed to multiple DMARDs without necessarily …

Fatigue in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: current knowledge and areas for future research

K Davies, E Dures, WF Ng - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2021 - nature.com
Fatigue is a complex phenomenon and an important health concern for many people with
chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis …

Neuropsychiatric lupus: new mechanistic insights and future treatment directions

N Schwartz, AD Stock, C Putterman - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2019 - nature.com
Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) frequently show symptoms of central
nervous system (CNS) involvement, termed neuropsychiatric SLE (NPSLE). The CNS …

[HTML][HTML] Brain correlates of depression, post-traumatic distress, and inflammatory biomarkers in COVID-19 survivors: a multimodal magnetic resonance imaging study

F Benedetti, M Palladini, M Paolini, E Melloni… - Brain, behavior, & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Psychiatric sequelae substantially contribute to the post-acute burden of disease associated
with COVID-19, persisting months after clearance of the virus. Brain imaging shows white …

Focus on sex and gender: what we need to know in the management of rheumatoid arthritis

B Maranini, A Bortoluzzi, E Silvagni… - Journal of personalized …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease, affecting mostly women with a
female/male ratio of 3: 1. It is characterized by symmetrical polyarthritis, leading to …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting chronic postsurgical pain: current evidence and a novel program to develop predictive biomarker signatures

KA Sluka, TD Wager, SP Sutherland, PA Labosky… - Pain, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Chronic pain affects more than 50 million Americans. Treatments remain inadequate, in
large part, because the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the development of …

DNA methylation and protein markers of chronic inflammation and their associations with brain and cognitive aging

ELS Conole, AJ Stevenson, S Muñoz Maniega… - Neurology, 2021 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives To investigate chronic inflammation in relation to cognitive
aging by comparison of an epigenetic and serum biomarker of C-reactive protein and their …