[HTML][HTML] Cannabinoids and pain: new insights from old molecules

S Vučković, D Srebro, KS Vujović, Č Vučetić… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Cannabis has been used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years. The prohibition of
cannabis in the middle of the 20th century has arrested cannabis research. In recent years …

An introduction to the endogenous cannabinoid system

HC Lu, K Mackie - Biological psychiatry, 2016 - Elsevier
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is a widespread neuromodulatory system that plays
important roles in central nervous system development, synaptic plasticity, and the response …

The endogenous cannabinoid system: a budding source of targets for treating inflammatory and neuropathic pain

G Donvito, SR Nass, JL Wilkerson, ZA Curry… - …, 2018 - nature.com
A great need exists for the development of new medications to treat pain resulting from
various disease states and types of injury. Given that the endogenous cannabinoid (that is …

The cannabinoid system and pain

SG Woodhams, V Chapman, DP Finn, AG Hohmann… - …, 2017 - Elsevier
Chronic pain states are highly prevalent and yet poorly controlled by currently available
analgesics, representing an enormous clinical, societal, and economic burden. Existing pain …

Enzyme inhibitor discovery by activity-based protein profiling

MJ Niphakis, BF Cravatt - Annual review of biochemistry, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms possess huge numbers of uncharacterized enzymes.
Selective inhibitors offer powerful probes for assigning functions to enzymes in native …

Regulation of inflammation by cannabinoids, the endocannabinoids 2-arachidonoyl-glycerol and arachidonoyl-ethanolamide, and their metabolites

C Turcotte, F Chouinard, JS Lefebvre… - Journal of Leucocyte …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Arachidonoyl-glycerol (2-AG) and arachidonyl-ethanolamide (AEA) are endocannabinoids
that have been implicated in many physiologic disorders, including obesity, metabolic …

The role of the endocannabinoid system in pain

SG Woodhams, DR Sagar, JJ Burston, V Chapman - Pain control, 2015 - Springer
Preparations of the Cannabis sativa plant have been used to analgesic effect for millenia,
but only in recent decades has the endogenous system responsible for these effects been …

Identification of ABX-1431, a selective inhibitor of monoacylglycerol lipase and clinical candidate for treatment of neurological disorders

JS Cisar, OD Weber, JR Clapper… - Journal of medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The serine hydrolase monoacylglycerol lipase (MGLL) converts the endogenous
cannabinoid receptor agonist 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) and other monoacylglycerols …

[HTML][HTML] Monoacylglycerol lipase inhibitors: modulators for lipid metabolism in cancer malignancy, neurological and metabolic disorders

H Deng, W Li - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2020 - Elsevier
Monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) is a serine hydrolase that plays a crucial role catalysing the
hydrolysis of monoglycerides into glycerol and fatty acids. It links the endocannabinoid and …

A cannabinoid CB1 receptor-positive allosteric modulator reduces neuropathic pain in the mouse with no psychoactive effects

BM Ignatowska-Jankowska, GL Baillie… - …, 2015 - nature.com
The CB 1 receptor represents a promising target for the treatment of several disorders
including pain-related disease states. However, therapeutic applications of Δ 9 …