[HTML][HTML] Predicting chronic postsurgical pain: current evidence and a novel program to develop predictive biomarker signatures

KA Sluka, TD Wager, SP Sutherland, PA Labosky… - Pain, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Chronic pain affects more than 50 million Americans. Treatments remain inadequate, in
large part, because the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the development of …

Personalized treatment of neuropathic pain: Where are we now?

D Bouhassira, N Attal - European Journal of Pain, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background The treatment of neuropathic pain remains a major unmet need that the
development of personalized and refined treatment strategies may contribute to address …

An investigation of metabolome in blood in patients with chronic peripheral, posttraumatic/postsurgical neuropathic pain

B Ghafouri, K Thordeman, R Hadjikani, A Bay Nord… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Neuropathic pain (NP) is a chronic pain condition resulting from a lesion or disease in the
somatosensory nervous system. The aim of this study was to investigate the metabolome in …

Machine learning and pathway analysis-based discovery of metabolomic markers relating to chronic pain phenotypes

T Miettinen, AI Nieminen, P Mäntyselkä… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent scientific evidence suggests that chronic pain phenotypes are reflected in
metabolomic changes. However, problems associated with chronic pain, such as sleep …

Finding new analgesics: Computational pharmacology faces drug discovery challenges

A Barakat, G Munro, AM Heegaard - Biochemical pharmacology, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the worldwide prevalence and huge burden of pain, pain is an undertreated
phenomenon. Currently used analgesics have several limitations regarding their efficacy …

Would Cutibacterium acnes Be the Villain for the Chronicity of Low Back Pain in Degenerative Disc Disease? Preliminary Results of an Analytical Cohort

VM da Rocha, COGX Lima, GB Candido… - Journal of personalized …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the last decade, several studies have demonstrated Cutibacterium acnes colonization in
intervertebral discs (IVDs) in patients with lumbar disc degeneration (LDD) and low back …

[HTML][HTML] Presurgical blood metabolites and risk of postsurgical pelvic pain in young patients with endometriosis

N Sasamoto, OA Zeleznik, AF Vitonis, SA Missmer… - Fertility and sterility, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective To identify metabolites in presurgical blood associated with risk of persistent
postsurgical pelvic pain 1 year after endometriosis surgery in adolescent and young adult …

A Metabolomic study of the analgesic effect of lappaconitine hydrobromide (LAH) on inflammatory pain

X Li, X Wang, Z Li, Y Mao, Z Liu, X Liu, X Zhu, J Zhang - Metabolites, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lappaconitine (LA) is a C-18 diterpene alkaloid isolated from Aconitum sinomontanum
Nakai that has been shown to relieve mild to moderate discomfort. Various researchers have …

Chronic abdominal pain in IBD research initiative: unraveling biological mechanisms and patient heterogeneity to personalize treatment and improve clinical …

A Hurtado-Lorenzo, G Honig, SA Weaver… - Crohn's & Colitis …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abdominal pain in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) is very common and up
to 80% of patients experience some type of acute pain as a result of inflammation and/or …

Machine-learning analysis of serum proteomics in neuropathic pain after nerve injury in breast cancer surgery points at chemokine signaling via SIRT2 regulation

J Lötsch, L Mustonen, H Harno, E Kalso - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Persistent postsurgical neuropathic pain (PPSNP) can occur after
intraoperative damage to somatosensory nerves, with a prevalence of 29–57% in breast …