The Biology of Stress Intolerance in Patients with Chronic Pain—State of the Art and Future Directions

A Wyns, J Hendrix, A Lahousse, E De Bruyne… - Journal of clinical …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Stress has been consistently linked to negative impacts on physical and mental health. More
specifically, patients with chronic pain experience stress intolerance, which is an …

Problems with opioids beyond misuse

D Kheirabadi, D Minhas, R Ghaderpanah… - Best Practice & Research …, 2024 - Elsevier
The US is grappling with an opioid epidemic, with millions of adults on long-term opioid
therapy (LTOT). Although patients often report pain relief and improved daily function with …

The association of chronic pain and opioid withdrawal in men and women with opioid use disorder

OD Ware, JD Ellis, KE Dunn, JG Hobelmann… - Drug and alcohol …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Approximately 2.7 million individuals in the United States had an opioid use
disorder (OUD) in 2020. Chronic pain may exacerbate opioid withdrawal severity, yet most …

Opioid usage and COVID-19 prognosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

G Ao, T Li, Y Wang, J Li, C Tran, M Chen… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have profound health, social, psychological, and
economic ramifications. Infection by COVID-19 has been of concern in people who use …

A systematic review and meta-analysis on the role of Nutraceuticals in the management of neuropathic pain in in vivo studies

S Ilari, S Proietti, P Russo, V Malafoglia, M Gliozzi… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The control of neuropathic pain is a leading challenge in modern medicine. Traditional
medicine has, for a long time, used natural compounds such as nutraceuticals for this …

The yin/yang balance of communication between sensory neurons and macrophages in traumatic peripheral neuropathic pain

RO Gheorghe, AV Grosu, M Bica-Popi… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Traumatic peripheral neuropathic pain is a complex syndrome caused by a primary lesion or
dysfunction of the peripheral nervous system. Secondary to the lesion, resident or infiltrating …

Altered membrane expression and function of CD11b play a role in the immunosuppressive effects of morphine on macrophages at the nanomolar level

PC Yu, CY Hao, YZ Fan, D Liu, YF Qiao, JB Yao, CZ Li… - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Morphine, one of the most efficacious analgesics, is effective in severe pain, especially in
patients with concomitant painful cancers. The clinical use of morphine may be …

Modifiable contributing factors to COVID-19: A comprehensive review

RN Kostoff, MB Briggs, D Kanduc, S Dewanjee… - Food and Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
The devastating complications of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) result from an
individual's dysfunctional immune response following the initial severe acute respiratory …

An observational study on chronic pain biomarkers in fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis patients: which role for mu opioid receptor's expression on NK cells?

V Malafoglia, S Ilari, C Gioia, L Vitiello, M Tenti… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The evaluation of chronic pain is challenging because of the lack of specific biomarkers. We
identified the Mu opioid receptor-positive (Mu+) B cell percentage of expression, named Mu …

[PDF][PDF] Dark classics in chemical neuroscience: comprehensive study on the biochemical mechanisms and clinical implications of opioid analgesics

F Khamooshi, S Doraji-Bonjar… - Chemical …, 2023 - researchgate.net
In terms of pharmaceutical grouping, opioids are natural and synthetic substances derived
and simulated from opium [1, 2] which can activate the neurological system by a connection …