Innovations and advances in modelling and measuring pain in animals

KE Sadler, JS Mogil, CL Stucky - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Best practices in preclinical algesiometry (pain behaviour testing) have shifted over the past
decade as a result of technological advancements, the continued dearth of translational …

The translatability of pain across species

JS Mogil - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The poor translational record of pain research has suggested to some observers that
species differences in pain biology might be to blame. In this review, I consider the evidence …

Optogenetic spreading depression elicits trigeminal pain and anxiety behavior

AM Harriott, DY Chung, A Uner, RO Bozdayi… - Annals of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Cortical spreading depression (SD) is an intense depolarization underlying
migraine aura. Despite the weight of evidence linking SD to the pain phase of migraine …

Development of CGRP-dependent pain and headache related behaviours in a rat model of concussion: implications for mechanisms of post-traumatic headache

D Bree, D Levy - Cephalalgia, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background and objective Posttraumatic headache (PTH) is one of the most common,
debilitating and difficult symptoms to manage after a mild traumatic brain injury, or …

Clinical relevance of behavior testing in animal models of traumatic brain injury

SR Shultz, SJ McDonald, F Corrigan… - Journal of …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of morbidity worldwide, with patients often
suffering from consequences such as cognitive deficits, social abnormalities, anxiety …

Brain trauma, glucocorticoids and neuroinflammation: dangerous liaisons for the hippocampus

IG Komoltsev, NV Gulyaeva - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Glucocorticoid-dependent mechanisms of inflammation-mediated distant hippocampal
damage are discussed with a focus on the consequences of traumatic brain injury. The …

Pharmacological manipulation of cGMP and NO/cGMP in CNS drug discovery

MA Hollas, MB Aissa, SH Lee, JM Gordon-Blake… - Nitric Oxide, 2019 - Elsevier
The development of small molecule modulators of NO/cGMP signaling for use in the CNS
has lagged far behind the use of such clinical agents in the periphery, despite the central …

Trigeminal pain molecules, allodynia, and photosensitivity are pharmacologically and genetically modulated in a model of traumatic brain injury

BV Daiutolo, A Tyburski, SW Clark… - Journal of …, 2016 - liebertpub.com
The pain-signaling molecules, nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and calcitonin gene-related
peptide (CGRP), are implicated in the pathophysiology of post-traumatic headache (PTH) as …

Frequent mild head injury promotes trigeminal sensitivity concomitant with microglial proliferation, astrocytosis, and increased neuropeptide levels in the trigeminal …

AL Tyburski, L Cheng, S Assari, K Darvish… - The journal of headache …, 2017 - Springer
Background Frequent mild head injuries or concussion along with the presence of
headache may contribute to the persistence of concussion symptoms. Methods In this study …

Gender differences in a mouse model of chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain

H Naji-Esfahani, G Vaseghi, L Safaeian… - Laboratory …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain is one of the major problems for cancer patients.
Although paclitaxel and cisplatin are widely used in women, most laboratory studies of …