Intraspinal Transplantation of Precursors of Cortical GABAergic Interneurons to Treat Neuropathic Pain

JM Braz, AI Basbaum - Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Pain …, 2022 - Springer
Neuropathic pain arises from peripheral nerve injury-induced loss of GABAergic controls in
the spinal cord dorsal horn, resulting in ongoing, often burning pain, and mechanical and …

[PDF][PDF] Forebrain GABAergic neuron precursors integrate into adult spinal cord and reduce injury-induced neuropathic pain

JM Bráz, R Sharif-Naeini, D Vogt, A Kriegstein… - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Neuropathic pain is a chronic debilitating disease characterized by mechanical allodynia
and spontaneous pain. Because symptoms are often unresponsive to conventional methods …

[HTML][HTML] Functional synaptic integration of forebrain GABAergic precursors into the adult spinal cord

A Etlin, JM Bráz, JA Kuhn, X Wang… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
Spinal cord transplants of embryonic cortical GABAergic progenitor cells derived from the
medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) can reverse mechanical hypersensitivity in the mouse …

Cell transplants to treat the “disease” of neuropathic pain and itch

AI Basbaum, JM Bráz - Pain, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Among many mechanisms implicated in the development of neuropathic pain after nerve
damage is a profound dysfunction of GABAergic inhibitory controls, manifested by ongoing …

Transplant-mediated enhancement of spinal cord GABAergic inhibition reverses paclitaxel-induced mechanical and heat hypersensitivity

JM Bráz, X Wang, Z Guan, JL Rubenstein, AI Basbaum - Pain, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Decreased spinal cord GABAergic inhibition is a major contributor to the persistent
neuropathic pain that can follow peripheral nerve injury. Recently, we reported that restoring …

Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived GABAergic interneuron transplants attenuate neuropathic pain

J Manion, T Khuong, D Harney, JB Littleboy, T Ruan… - Pain, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Neuropathic pain causes severe suffering, and most patients are resistant to current
therapies. A core element of neuropathic pain is the loss of inhibitory tone in the spinal cord …

Spinal GABAergic transplants attenuate mechanical allodynia in a rat model of neuropathic pain

K Mukhida, I Mendez, M McLeod, N Kobayashi… - Stem …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Injury to the spinal cord or peripheral nerves can lead to the development of allodynia due to
the loss of inhibitory tone involved in spinal sensory function. The potential of intraspinal …

Long‐term, dynamic synaptic reorganization after GABAergic precursor cell transplantation into adult mouse spinal cord

IJ Llewellyn‐Smith, AI Basbaum… - Journal of Comparative …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Transplanting embryonic precursors of GABAergic neurons from the medial ganglionic
eminence (MGE) into adult mouse spinal cord ameliorates mechanical and thermal …

Article Commentary: Transplants of Neuronal Cells Bioengineered to Synthesize GABA Alleviate Chronic Neuropathic Pain

MJ Eaton, JA Plunkett, MA Martinez… - Cell …, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
The use of cell lines utilized as biologic “minipumps” to provide antinociceptive molecules,
such as GABA, in animal models of pain is a newly developing area in transplantation …

[HTML][HTML] Transplanted precursors halt neuropathic pain

K Whalley - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
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