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 …

Innovations and advances in modelling and measuring pain in animals

KE Sadler, JS Mogil, CL Stucky - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022‏ - nature.com
Best practices in preclinical algesiometry (pain behaviour testing) have shifted over the past
decade as a result of technological advancements, the continued dearth of translational …

Emerging targets in photopharmacology

MM Lerch, MJ Hansen, GM van Dam… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
The field of photopharmacology uses molecular photoswitches to establish control over the
action of bioactive molecules. It aims to reduce systemic drug toxicity and the emergence of …

Breaking barriers to novel analgesic drug development

AS Yekkirala, DP Roberson, BP Bean… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Acute and chronic pain complaints, although common, are generally poorly served by
existing therapies. This unmet clinical need reflects a failure to develop novel classes of …

Comparative transcriptome profiling of the human and mouse dorsal root ganglia: an RNA-seq–based resource for pain and sensory neuroscience research

P Ray, A Torck, L Quigley, A Wangzhou, M Neiman… - Pain, 2018‏ - journals.lww.com
2. Methods We performed RNA-seq for hDRG and integratively analyzed the transcriptome
by comparing it with publicly available human and mouse RNA-seq data sets (sources …

[HTML][HTML] Toward a mechanism-based approach to pain diagnosis

D Vardeh, RJ Mannion, CJ Woolf - The Journal of Pain, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The past few decades have witnessed a huge leap forward in our understanding of the
mechanistic underpinnings of pain, in normal states where it helps protect from injury, and …

Generation and characterization of hair-bearing skin organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

J Lee, WH Van Der Valk, SA Serdy, CC Deakin, J Kim… - Nature protocols, 2022‏ - nature.com
Human skin uses millions of hairs and glands distributed across the body surface to function
as an external barrier, thermoregulator and stimuli sensor. The large-scale generation of …

Human sensorimotor organoids derived from healthy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis stem cells form neuromuscular junctions

JD Pereira, DM DuBreuil, AC Devlin, A Held… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) hold promise for modeling diseases in
individual human genetic backgrounds and thus for develo** precision medicine. Here …

Composite pain biomarker signatures for objective assessment and effective treatment

I Tracey, CJ Woolf, NA Andrews - Neuron, 2019‏ - cell.com
Pain is a subjective sensory experience that can, mostly, be reported but cannot be directly
measured or quantified. Nevertheless, a suite of biomarkers related to mechanisms, neural …

Pathogenesis of paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy: A current review of in vitro and in vivo findings using rodent and human model systems

NP Staff, JC Fehrenbacher, M Caillaud, MI Damaj… - Experimental …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Paclitaxel (Brand name Taxol) is widely used in the treatment of common cancers
like breast, ovarian and lung cancer. Although highly effective in blocking tumor progression …