Gut-innervating nociceptors regulate the intestinal microbiota to promote tissue protection

W Zhang, M Lyu, NJ Bessman, Z Xie, M Arifuzzaman… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Nociceptive pain is a hallmark of many chronic inflammatory conditions including
inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs); however, whether pain-sensing neurons influence …

Challenges and opportunities in translational pain research–An opinion paper of the working group on translational pain research of the European pain federation …

A Mouraux, K Bannister, S Becker… - … Journal of Pain, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, basic research on the underlying mechanisms of nociception has held promise
to translate into efficacious treatments for patients with pain. Despite great improvement in …

[HTML][HTML] DRG afferents that mediate physiologic and pathologic mechanosensation from the distal colon

RL Wolfson, A Abdelaziz, G Rankin, S Kushner, L Qi… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The properties of dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurons that innervate the distal colon are
poorly defined, hindering our understanding of their roles in normal physiology and …

A brief review of in vitro models for injury and regeneration in the peripheral nervous system

P Varier, G Raju, P Madhusudanan, C Jerard… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nerve axonal injury and associated cellular mechanisms leading to peripheral nerve
damage are important topics of research necessary for reducing disability and enhancing …

Multifunctional Nanomesh Enables Cellular‐Resolution, Elastic Neuroelectronics

J Ryu, Y Qiang, L Chen, G Li, X Han, E Woon… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Silicone‐based devices have the potential to achieve an ideal interface with nervous tissue
but suffer from scalability, primarily due to the mechanical mismatch between established …

BzATP activates satellite glial cells and increases the excitability of dorsal root ganglia neurons in vivo

Z Chen, C Zhang, X Song, X Cui, J Liu, NC Ford, S He… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The purinergic system plays an important role in pain transmission. Recent studies have
suggested that activation of P2-purinergic receptors (P2Rs) may be involved in neuron …

Calcium imaging in population of dorsal root ganglion neurons unravels novel mechanisms of visceral pain sensitization and referred somatic hypersensitivity

X Gao, S Han, Q Huang, SQ He, NC Ford, Q Zheng… - Pain, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Mechanisms of visceral pain sensitization and referred somatic hypersensitivity remain
unclear. We conducted calcium imaging in Pirt-GCaMP6s mice to gauge responses of …

Sex differences in zymosan-induced behavioral visceral hypersensitivity and colorectal afferent sensitization

T Guo, J Liu, L Chen, Z Bian… - American Journal of …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Sex differences in visceral nociception have been reported in clinical and preclinical studies,
but the potential differences in sensory neural encoding of the colorectum between males …

Load-bearing function of the colorectal submucosa and its relevance to visceral nociception elicited by mechanical stretch

S Siri, F Maier, S Santos… - American Journal of …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Mechanical distension beyond a particular threshold evokes visceral pain from distal colon
and rectum (colorectum), and thus biomechanics plays a central role in visceral nociception …

Morphological, molecular, and functional characterization of mouse glutamatergic myenteric neurons

J Liu, S Zhang, S Emadi, T Guo… - American Journal of …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
The enteric nervous system (ENS) functions largely independently of the central nervous
system (CNS). Glutamate, the dominant neurotransmitter in the CNS and sensory afferents …