[HTML][HTML] Microglia in pain: detrimental and protective roles in pathogenesis and resolution of pain

G Chen, YQ Zhang, YJ Qadri, CN Serhan, RR Ji - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The previous decade has seen a rapid increase in microglial studies on pain, with a unique
focus on microgliosis in the spinal cord after nerve injury and neuropathic pain. Numerous …

Microglia in neuropathic pain: cellular and molecular mechanisms and therapeutic potential

K Inoue, M Tsuda - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Acute nociceptive pain is a key defence system that enables the detection of danger signals
that threaten homeostasis and survival. However, chronic pain (such as the neuropathic …

[HTML][HTML] Dorsal root ganglion macrophages contribute to both the initiation and persistence of neuropathic pain

X Yu, H Liu, KA Hamel, MG Morvan, S Yu, J Leff… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Paralleling the activation of dorsal horn microglia after peripheral nerve injury is a significant
expansion and proliferation of macrophages around injured sensory neurons in dorsal root …

[HTML][HTML] A TRPV4-dependent neuroimmune axis in the spinal cord promotes neuropathic pain

X Hu, L Du, S Liu, Z Lan, K Zang, J Feng… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Microglia, resident macrophages of the CNS, are essential to brain development,
homeostasis, and disease. Microglial activation and proliferation are hallmarks of many CNS …

Neuropathic pain: central vs. peripheral mechanisms

K Meacham, A Shepherd, DP Mohapatra… - Current pain and …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Our goal is to examine the processes—both central and
peripheral—that underlie the development of peripherally-induced neuropathic pain (pNP) …

TNF-α differentially regulates synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus and spinal cord by microglia-dependent mechanisms after peripheral nerve injury

Y Liu, LJ Zhou, J Wang, D Li, WJ Ren… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Clinical studies show that chronic pain is accompanied by memory deficits and reduction in
hippocampal volume. Experimental studies show that spared nerve injury (SNI) of the sciatic …

[HTML][HTML] Role of the immune system in neuropathic pain

M Malcangio - Scandinavian journal of pain, 2020 - degruyter.com
Background Acute pain is a warning mechanism that exists to prevent tissue damage,
however pain can outlast its protective purpose and persist beyond injury, becoming …

Chronic pain and neuroinflammation

P Vergne-Salle, P Bertin - Joint Bone Spine, 2021 - Elsevier
In rheumatology, chronic pain most often sets in after a musculoskeletal injury. Its
persistence is not always due to the progression of the initial injury, but in some cases to the …

TREM2 interacts with TDP-43 and mediates microglial neuroprotection against TDP-43-related neurodegeneration

M Xie, YU Liu, S Zhao, L Zhang, DB Bosco… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cell 2 (TREM2) is linked to risk of
neurodegenerative disease. However, the function of TREM2 in neurodegeneration is still …

Self-renewing macrophages in dorsal root ganglia contribute to promote nerve regeneration

R Feng, V Muraleedharan Saraswathy… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Sensory neurons located in dorsal root ganglia (DRG) convey sensory information from
peripheral tissue to the brain. After peripheral nerve injury, sensory neurons switch to a …