[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
pain generator in chronic conditions. Selective destruction of noradrenergic neurons appears
to dampen neuropathic pain … of the noradrenergic system in long-term pain. Stronger c-Fos …

[HTML][HTML] Endogenous opioids gate the locus coeruleus pain generator

MR Norris, CC Kuo, JR Kim, SS Dunn, G Borges… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
locus coeruleus (LC) plays a paradoxical role in chronic pain. … transform the LC into a
chronic pain generator. We sought to … locus coeruleus-noradrenergic (LC-NE) system in chronic

[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
… of noradrenaline in acute and chronic trigeminal pain conditions and how the activity of
the locus coeruleus noradrenergic neurons changes in response to acute and chronic pain

Pain Modulation from the Locus Coeruleus in a Model of Hydrocephalus: Searching for Oxidative Stress-Induced Noradrenergic Neuroprotection

M Louçano, J Oliveira, I Martins, R Vaz… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… of AR, and the intensity and duration of the pain stimulus [22,23]. Our … pain facilitation by
showing that, in chronic pain models, NA released from the LC in the brain accounts for pain

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

M Llorca-Torralba, C Camarena-Delgado… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
pain (chronic constriction injury), we explore how this comorbidity arises. To this end, we
evaluated the time-dependent plasticity of noradrenergic locus coeruleus … in chronic pain and …

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 … the role of the locus coeruleus as a ‘chronic pain generator’. Pinpointing the …

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
… a source of pain inhibition but also a chronic pain generator. Furthermore, it also explains
the limited efficacy of systemic drugs increasing global noradrenaline availability. Therefore, …

Divergent influences of the locus coeruleus on migraine pathophysiology

M Vila-Pueyo, LC Strother, M Kefel, PJ Goadsby… - Pain, 2019 - journals.lww.com
… to chronically ablate LC noradrenergicnoradrenergic neurons that acts through noradrenaline
transporter uptake mechanisms, 40 we observed a significant reduction in noradrenergic

Locus Coeruleus Integrity in Older Adults with and without Chronic Pain

TR Bell, CE Franz, LT Eyler, C Fennema-Notestine… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
locus coeruleus integrity measured by locus coeruleus … (LC CNR ) in people with and without
chronic pain. On this scale, 0 … noradrenergic locus coeruleus as a chronic pain generator. …

Spinally projecting noradrenergic neurons of the locus coeruleus display resistance to AAV2retro-mediated transduction

RP Ganley, K Werder, H Wildner… - … Pain, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
… However, the LC is also known to be involved in maintaining chronic pain states, 10 and
recent studies suggest that descending NA-containing projections are involved in generating …