Interleukin-6: an emerging regulator of pathological pain

YQ Zhou, Z Liu, ZH Liu, SP Chen, M Li… - Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Interleukin-6 is an inflammatory cytokine with wide-ranging biological effects. It has been
widely demonstrated that neuroinflammation plays a critical role in the development of …

The role of glia in the spinal cord in neuropathic and inflammatory pain

EA Old, AK Clark, M Malcangio - Pain control, 2015 - Springer
Chronic pain, both inflammatory and neuropathic, is a debilitating condition in which the
pain experience persists after the painful stimulus has resolved. The efficacy of current …

Associations between proinflammatory cytokines in the synovial fluid and radiographic grading and pain-related scores in 47 consecutive patients with osteoarthritis of …

S Orita, T Koshi, T Mitsuka, M Miyagi, G Inoue… - BMC musculoskeletal …, 2011 - Springer
Background One of the sources of knee pain in osteoarthritis (OA) is believed to be related
to local chronic inflammation of the knee joints, which involves the production of …

Pain-related sensory innervation in monoiodoacetate-induced osteoarthritis in rat knees that gradually develops neuronal injury in addition to inflammatory pain

S Orita, T Ishikawa, M Miyagi, N Ochiai, G Inoue… - BMC musculoskeletal …, 2011 - Springer
Background The exact mechanism of knee osteoarthritis (OA)-associated pain is unclear,
whereas mixed evidence of inflammatory pain and neuropathic pain has been noted. We …

SOCS3-mediated blockade of JAK/STAT3 signaling pathway reveals its major contribution to spinal cord neuroinflammation and mechanical allodynia after peripheral …

E Dominguez, A Mauborgne, J Mallet… - Journal of …, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
Neuropathic pain after peripheral nerve injury, associated with local neuroinflammation in
the spinal cord, is a severe incapacitating condition with which clinical treatment remains …

A dual noradrenergic mechanism for the relief of neuropathic allodynia by the antidepressant drugs duloxetine and amitriptyline

M Kremer, I Yalcin, Y Goumon, X Wurtz… - Journal of …, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
In addition to treating depression, antidepressant drugs are also a first-line treatment for
neuropathic pain, which is pain secondary to lesion or pathology of the nervous system …

Sciatic nerve injury: a simple and subtle model for investigating many aspects of nervous system damage and recovery

LE Savastano, SR Laurito, MR Fitt… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2014 - Elsevier
Sciatic nerve injury has been used for over a century to investigate the process of nerve
damage, to assess the absolute and relative capacity of the central and peripheral nervous …

Probucol attenuates NF-κB/NLRP3 signalling and augments Nrf-2 mediated antioxidant defence in nerve injury induced neuropathic pain

K Derangula, M Javalgekar, V Kumar Arruri… - International …, 2022 - Elsevier
Neuroinflammation is one of the most significant pathological drivers following nerve injury
which along with immune cell activation, oxidative stress and other associated molecular …

Minocycline blocks lipopolysaccharide induced hyperalgesia by suppression of microglia but not astrocytes

SY Yoon, D Patel, PM Dougherty - Neuroscience, 2012 - Elsevier
Systemic injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces a robust immune response as well
as thermal and mechanical hyperalgesia. Spinal and peripheral glial cells have been …

The up-regulation of IL-6 in DRG and spinal dorsal horn contributes to neuropathic pain following L5 ventral root transection

XH Wei, XD Na, GJ Liao, QY Chen, Y Cui… - Experimental …, 2013 - Elsevier
Our previous works have shown that pro-inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor-alpha
(TNF-α) plays an important role in neuropathic pain produced by lumber 5 ventral root …