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 …

Neuropathic pain

L Colloca, T Ludman, D Bouhassira, R Baron… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
Neuropathic pain is caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory system, including
peripheral fibres (Aβ, Aδ and C fibres) and central neurons, and affects 7–10% of the …

Status of peripheral sodium channel blockers for non-addictive pain treatment

M Alsaloum, GP Higerd, PR Effraim… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The effective and safe treatment of pain is an unmet health-care need. Current medications
used for pain management are often only partially effective, carry dose-limiting adverse …

Quantifying cerebral contributions to pain beyond nociception

CW Woo, L Schmidt, A Krishnan, M Jepma… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Cerebral processes contribute to pain beyond the level of nociceptive input and mediate
psychological and behavioural influences. However, cerebral contributions beyond …

Nav1.7 and Nav1.8: Role in the pathophysiology of pain

S Hameed - Molecular pain, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Chronic pain is a significant unmet medical problem. Current research regarding sodium
channel function in pathological pain is advancing with the hope that it will enable the …

Maximizing treatment efficacy through patient stratification in neuropathic pain trials

R Baron, AH Dickenson, M Calvo, SD Dib-Hajj… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment of neuropathic pain remains inadequate despite the elucidation of
multiple pathophysiological mechanisms and the development of promising therapeutic …

Small‐fiber neuropathy: expanding the clinical pain universe

M Sopacua, JGJ Hoeijmakers… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Small‐fiber neuropathy (SFN) is a disorder of thinly myelinated Aδ and unmyelinated C
fibers. SFN is clinically dominated by neuropathic pain and autonomic complaints, leading to …

Sodium channels in human pain disorders: genetics and pharmacogenomics

SD Dib-Hajj, SG Waxman - Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Acute pain is adaptive, but chronic pain is a global challenge. Many chronic pain syndromes
are peripheral in origin and reflect hyperactivity of peripheral pain-signaling neurons …

The genetics of neuropathic pain from model organisms to clinical application

M Calvo, AJ Davies, HL Hebert, GA Weir, EJ Chesler… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Neuropathic pain (NeuP) arises due to injury of the somatosensory nervous system and is
both common and disabling, rendering an urgent need for non-addictive, effective new …

Personalized treatment of neuropathic pain: Where are we now?

D Bouhassira, N Attal - European Journal of Pain, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background The treatment of neuropathic pain remains a major unmet need that the
development of personalized and refined treatment strategies may contribute to address …