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December 2024
College of Chinese Medicine, Graduate Institute of Acupuncture Science, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan.
Background: Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterized by chronic pain, significantly affecting the quality of life and functional capabilities of patients. In addition to pain, patients may experience insomnia, chronic fatigue, depression, anxiety, and headaches, further complicating their overall well-being. The Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) receptor responds to various noxious stimuli and plays a key role in regulating pain sensitivity and inflammation.
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November 2024
Center for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
The neural mechanisms of the affective-motivational symptoms of chronic pain are poorly understood. In chronic pain, our innate coping mechanisms fail to provide relief. Hence, these behaviors are manifested at higher frequencies.
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September 2024
Molecular, Cellular and Biochemical Pharmacology Graduate Program, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States.
Early life stress (ELS) is associated with an increased risk of experiencing chronic pain during adulthood, but surprisingly little is known about the short-term influence of ELS on nociceptive processing in the immature nervous system and the concomitant effects on somatosensation in the neonate. Here, we investigate how ELS modulates pain in neonatal mice and the transcriptional and electrophysiological signatures of immature dorsal root ganglia (DRG). Shortly after the administration of a neonatal limiting bedding (NLB) paradigm from postnatal days (P)2 to P9, both male and female pups exhibited robust hypersensitivity in response to tactile, pressure, and noxious cold stimuli compared with a control group housed under standard conditions, with no change in their sensitivity to noxious heat.
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November 2024
Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark; Danish Pain Research Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark. Electronic address:
In the Thermal Grill Illusion (TGI), the spatial alternation of non-noxious warm and cool temperatures elicits burning sensations that resemble the presence of noxious stimuli. Previous research has largely relied on the use of specific temperature values (i.e.
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November 2024
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Section, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.
Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are a large and diverse family of tetrameric cation-selective channels that are activated by many different types of stimuli, including noxious heat or cold, organic ligands such as vanilloids or cooling agents, or intracellular Ca. Structures available for all subtypes of TRP channels reveal that the transmembrane domains are closely related despite their unique sensitivity to activating stimuli. Here, we use computational and electrophysiological approaches to explore the conservation of the cooling agent binding pocket identified within the S1-S4 domain of the Melastatin subfamily member TRPM8, the mammalian sensor of noxious cold, with other TRPM channel subtypes.
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