Innovations and advances in modelling and measuring pain in animals

KE Sadler, JS Mogil, CL Stucky - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Best practices in preclinical algesiometry (pain behaviour testing) have shifted over the past
decade as a result of technological advancements, the continued dearth of translational …

The role of voltage-gated sodium channels in pain signaling

DL Bennett, AJ Clark, J Huang… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Acute pain signaling has a key protective role and is highly evolutionarily conserved.
Chronic pain, however, is maladaptive, occurring as a consequence of injury and disease …

Chemotherapy‐induced peripheral neuropathy: a current review

NP Staff, A Grisold, W Grisold… - Annals of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Chemotherapy‐induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a common dose‐limiting side effect
experienced by patients receiving treatment for cancer. Approximately 30 to 40% of patients …

Reconstruction of the human blood–brain barrier in vitro reveals a pathogenic mechanism of APOE4 in pericytes

JW Blanchard, M Bula, J Davila-Velderrain, LA Akay… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
In Alzheimer's disease, amyloid deposits along the brain vasculature lead to a condition
known as cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), which impairs blood–brain barrier (BBB) …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid single-step induction of functional neurons from human pluripotent stem cells

Y Zhang, CH Pak, Y Han, H Ahlenius, Z Zhang… - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
Available methods for differentiating human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced
pluripotent cells (iPSCs) into neurons are often cumbersome, slow, and variable …

Studying human nociceptors: from fundamentals to clinic

SJ Middleton, AM Barry, M Comini, Y Li, PR Ray… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Chronic pain affects one in five of the general population and is the third most important
cause of disability-adjusted life-years globally. Unfortunately, treatment remains inadequate …

Comparative transcriptome profiling of the human and mouse dorsal root ganglia: an RNA-seq–based resource for pain and sensory neuroscience research

P Ray, A Torck, L Quigley, A Wangzhou, M Neiman… - Pain, 2018 - journals.lww.com
2. Methods We performed RNA-seq for hDRG and integratively analyzed the transcriptome
by comparing it with publicly available human and mouse RNA-seq data sets (sources …

In vivo direct reprogramming of reactive glial cells into functional neurons after brain injury and in an Alzheimer's disease model

Z Guo, L Zhang, Z Wu, Y Chen, F Wang, G Chen - Cell stem cell, 2014 - cell.com
Loss of neurons after brain injury and in neurodegenerative disease is often accompanied
by reactive gliosis and scarring, which are difficult to reverse with existing treatment …

[HTML][HTML] An epigenetic barrier sets the timing of human neuronal maturation

G Ciceri, A Baggiolini, HS Cho, M Kshirsagar… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The pace of human brain development is highly protracted compared with most other
species,,,,,–. The maturation of cortical neurons is particularly slow, taking months to years to …

Generation of inner ear organoids containing functional hair cells from human pluripotent stem cells

KR Koehler, J Nie, E Longworth-Mills, XP Liu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The derivation of human inner ear tissue from pluripotent stem cells would enable in vitro
screening of drug candidates for the treatment of hearing and balance dysfunction and may …