Inflammation in pathogenesis of chronic pain: Foe and friend

XX Fang, MN Zhai, M Zhu, C He, H Wang… - Molecular …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Chronic pain is a refractory health disease worldwide causing an enormous economic
burden on individuals and society. Accumulating evidence suggests that inflammation in the …

Descending pain modulation: influence and impact

K Bannister - Current Opinion in Physiology, 2019 - Elsevier
A myriad of complex processes marry to drive pain perception in health and chronicity. A
final step in proceedings involves the activation of top-down modulatory pathways that can …

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) makes complex contributions to pain-related hyperactivity of nociceptors after spinal cord injury

A Bavencoffe, EA Spence, MY Zhu… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Neuropathic pain is a major, inadequately treated challenge for people with spinal cord
injury (SCI). While SCI pain mechanisms are often assumed to be in the CNS, rodent studies …

Sex‐dependent pronociceptive role of spinal α5‐GABAA receptor and its epigenetic regulation in neuropathic rodents

Ú Franco‐Enzástiga, G García… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Extrasynaptic α5‐subunit containing GABAA (α5‐GABAA) receptors participate in chronic
pain. Previously, we reported a sex difference in the action of α5‐GABAA receptors in …

Janus silk fibroin/polycaprolactone-based scaffold with directionally aligned fibers and porous structure for bone regeneration

Z Tang, J Li, L Fu, T Xia, X Dong, H Deng… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
To promote bone repair, it is desirable to develop three-dimensional multifunctional fiber
scaffolds. The densely stacked and tightly arranged conventional two-dimensional …

The epigenetics of neuropathic pain: A systematic update

G Pethő, B Kántás, Á Horváth, E Pintér - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Epigenetics deals with alterations to the gene expression that occur without change in the
nucleotide sequence in the DNA. Various covalent modifications of the DNA and/or the …

Epigenetic modifications in neuropathic pain

D Luo, X Li, S Tang, F Song, W Li, G Xie… - Molecular …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Neuropathic pain (NP) is a common symptom in many diseases of the somatosensory
nervous system, which severely affects the patient's quality of life. Epigenetics are heritable …

Epigenetics and postsurgical pain: a scoping review

E López-Muñoz, GE Mejía-Terrazas - Pain Medicine, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Objective Multiple factors are involved in the physiology and variability of postsurgical pain,
a great part of which can be explained by genetic and environmental factors and their …

MIF/CD74 axis participates in inflammatory activation of Schwann cells following sciatic nerve injury

H Song, Z Zhu, Y Zhou, N Du, T Song, H Liang… - Journal of Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Based on deep RNA sequencing of distal segments of lesioned sciatic nerves, a huge
number of differentially expression genes (DEGs) were thus obtained and functionally …

[HTML][HTML] Analgesic effect of safinamide mesylate in a rat model of neuropathic pain

Y Kogo, M Koebis, Y Kobayashi, T Ishida… - Behavioural Brain …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pain is one of the most frequent non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD).
Neuropathic pain is highly prevalent in PD and negatively affects the quality of life of patients …