[HTML][HTML] The role of the locus coeruleus in pain and associated stress-related disorders

I Suárez-Pereira, M Llorca-Torralba, L Bravo… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
… the noradrenaline release that would in turn contribute to the … pain generator in chronic
conditions. Selective destruction of noradrenergic neurons appears to dampen neuropathic pain

Activation of locus coeruleus-spinal cord noradrenergic neurons alleviates neuropathic pain in mice via reducing neuroinflammation from astrocytes and microglia in …

J Li, Y Wei, J Zhou, H Zou, L Ma, C Liu, Z Xiao… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
… In addition, considering that central sensitization, which was related to SDH microglia and
astrocytes [52], contributes to chronic pain including NP, we hypothesized that NE acted on …

Neuropathic pain increases spontaneous and noxious-evoked activity of locus coeruleus neurons

C Alba-Delgado, JA Mico, E Berrocoso - Progress in Neuro …, 2021 - Elsevier
… The noradrenergic locus coeruleus nucleus is an important station in both the ascending and
descending pain … We demonstrate that neuropathic pain increases the nociceptive evoked-…

Opioid activity in the locus coeruleus is modulated by chronic neuropathic pain

M Llorca-Torralba, F Pilar-Cuéllar, L Bravo… - Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
… (LC), the principal brain site of noradrenaline synthesis, is targeted by several endogenous
… pathway is thought to contribute to the intrinsic excitability of LC neurons and regulate c-fos …

[HTML][HTML] Locus coeruleus-noradrenergic modulation of trigeminal pain: implications for trigeminal neuralgia and psychiatric comorbidities

B Donertas-Ayaz, RM Caudle - Neurobiology of Pain, 2023 - Elsevier
Neuropathic pain induces anxio-depressive behaviors in rodents and changes in the
activity of LC noradrenergic neurons might contribute to that. It was shown that sciatic …

Histamine H4 receptor stimulation in the locus coeruleus attenuates neuropathic pain by promoting the coeruleospinal noradrenergic inhibitory pathway

MD Sanna, V Borgonetti, E Masini, N Galeotti - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
… -control inhibitory system nucleus implicated in descending modulation of pain through …
noradrenergic neurons and might contribute to pain control. Here we evaluated the contribution

Pain and depression comorbidity causes asymmetric plasticity in the locus coeruleus neurons

M Llorca-Torralba, C Camarena-Delgado… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… in a rat model of neuropathic pain (chronic constriction injury), … plasticity of noradrenergic
locus coeruleus neurons relative … The asymmetric contribution of locus coeruleus modules was …

Nerve injury induces transient locus coeruleus activation over time: role of the locus coeruleus–dorsal reticular nucleus pathway

C Camarena-Delgado, M Llorca-Torralba… - Pain, 2022 - journals.lww.com
pain, unmasking a descending facilitation noradrenergic pathway to the DRt. This activation
might contribute to spinal sensitization during neuropathic pain… that LC neurons projecting to …

Strategies to treat chronic pain and strengthen impaired descending noradrenergic inhibitory system

K Hayashida, H Obata - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
… the descending noradrenergic system from the locus coeruleus (… neuropathic pain turns
into chronic pain, noradrenergic … of duloxetine lead to increase in noradrenaline levels in the …

Distinct brainstem to spinal cord noradrenergic pathways inversely regulate spinal neuronal activity

MW Kucharczyk, F Di Domenico, K Bannister - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
locus coeruleus on non-coerulean, discrete noradrenergic cell group(s). We implemented
locus coeruleus … present study may help to elucidate the origins of chronic pain where the LC, …