Diabetic neuropathy and neuropathic pain: a (con) fusion of pathogenic mechanisms?

NA Calcutt - Pain, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Neuropathy will afflict over half of the estimated 460 million people worldwide who have
diabetes, 303 of whom approximately onethird will also develop neuropathic pain. 2 The …

Mammalian brain glycoproteins exhibit diminished glycan complexity compared to other tissues

SE Williams, M Noel, S Lehoux, M Cetinbas… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Glycosylation is essential to brain development and function, but prior studies have often
been limited to a single analytical technique and excluded region-and sex-specific analyses …

Calcium-permeable ion channels in pain signaling

E Bourinet, C Altier, ME Hildebrand… - Physiological …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
The detection and processing of painful stimuli in afferent sensory neurons is critically
dependent on a wide range of different types of voltage-and ligand-gated ion channels …

Cryo-EM structures of apo and antagonist-bound human Cav3. 1

Y Zhao, G Huang, Q Wu, K Wu, R Li, J Lei, X Pan… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Among the ten subtypes of mammalian voltage-gated calcium (Ca v) channels, Ca v 3.1–Ca
v 3.3 constitute the T-type, or the low-voltage-activated, subfamily, the abnormal activities of …

Central and peripheral contributions of T-type calcium channels in pain

EK Harding, GW Zamponi - Molecular brain, 2022 - Springer
Chronic pain is a severely debilitating condition that reflects a long-term sensitization of
signal transduction in the afferent pain pathway. Among the key players in this pathway are …

Peripheral voltage-gated cation channels in neuropathic pain and their potential as therapeutic targets

SRA Alles, PA Smith - Frontiers in Pain Research, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The persistence of increased excitability and spontaneous activity in injured peripheral
neurons is imperative for the development and persistence of many forms of neuropathic …

Structural basis for human Cav3.2 inhibition by selective antagonists

J Huang, X Fan, X **, C Lyu, Q Guo, T Liu, J Chen… - Cell Research, 2024 - nature.com
The Cav3. 2 subtype of T-type calcium channels has been targeted for develo**
analgesics and anti-epileptics for its role in pain and epilepsy. Here we present the cryo-EM …

Targeting T-type/CaV3. 2 channels for chronic pain

S Cai, K Gomez, A Moutal, R Khanna - Translational Research, 2021 - Elsevier
T-type calcium channels regulate neuronal excitability and are important contributors of pain
processing. CaV3. 2 channels are the major isoform expressed in nonpeptidergic and …

T-type calcium channels: from molecule to therapeutic opportunities

N Weiss, GW Zamponi - The international journal of biochemistry & cell …, 2019 - Elsevier
T-type calcium channels serve an essential role in the functioning of the nervous system.
They exhibit unique properties among voltage-gated calcium channels, and mediate specific …

Recent advances in the development of T‐type calcium channel blockers for pain intervention

TP Snutch, GW Zamponi - British journal of pharmacology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cav3. 2 T‐type calcium channels are important regulators of pain signals in the afferent pain
pathway, and their activities are dysregulated during various chronic pain states. Therefore …