Qualitative sex differences in pain processing: emerging evidence of a biased literature

JS Mogil - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Although most patients with chronic pain are women, the preclinical literature regarding pain
processing and the pathophysiology of chronic pain has historically been derived …

Neuropathic pain: from mechanisms to treatment

NB Finnerup, R Kuner, TS Jensen - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Neuropathic pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system is a
common chronic pain condition with major impact on quality of life. Examples include …

Spatial transcriptomics of dorsal root ganglia identifies molecular signatures of human nociceptors

D Tavares-Ferreira, S Shiers, PR Ray… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Nociceptors are specialized sensory neurons that detect damaging or potentially damaging
stimuli and are found in the dorsal root ganglia (DRG) and trigeminal ganglia. These …

Brain circuits for pain and its treatment

N Mercer Lindsay, C Chen, G Gilam… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Pain is a multidimensional experience with sensory-discriminative, affective-motivational,
and cognitive-evaluative components. Pain aversiveness is one principal cause of suffering …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional reprogramming of distinct peripheral sensory neuron subtypes after axonal injury

W Renthal, I Tochitsky, L Yang, YC Cheng, E Li… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Primary somatosensory neurons are specialized to transmit specific types of sensory
information through differences in cell size, myelination, and the expression of distinct …

Loss of p53 drives neuron reprogramming in head and neck cancer

M Amit, H Takahashi, MP Dragomir, A Lindemann… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The solid tumour microenvironment includes nerve fibres that arise from the peripheral
nervous system,. Recent work indicates that newly formed adrenergic nerve fibres promote …

Challenges of neuropathic pain: focus on diabetic neuropathy

DC Rosenberger, V Blechschmidt… - Journal of Neural …, 2020 - Springer
Neuropathic pain is a frequent condition caused by a lesion or disease of the central or
peripheral somatosensory nervous system. A frequent cause of peripheral neuropathic pain …

Single cell transcriptomics of primate sensory neurons identifies cell types associated with chronic pain

J Kupari, D Usoskin, M Parisien, D Lou, Y Hu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Distinct types of dorsal root ganglion sensory neurons may have unique contributions to
chronic pain. Identification of primate sensory neuron types is critical for understanding the …

RNA profiling of human dorsal root ganglia reveals sex differences in mechanisms promoting neuropathic pain

PR Ray, S Shiers, JP Caruso, D Tavares-Ferreira… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Neuropathic pain is a leading cause of high-impact pain, is often disabling and is poorly
managed by current therapeutics. Here we focused on a unique group of neuropathic pain …