[HTML][HTML] Diabetic neuropathy: a position statement by the American Diabetes Association

R Pop-Busui, AJM Boulton, EL Feldman, V Bril… - Diabetes …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Diabetic neuropathies are the most prevalent chronic complications of diabetes. This
heterogeneous group of conditions affects different parts of the nervous system and presents …

[HTML][HTML] Reward circuitry plasticity in pain perception and modulation

MF DosSantos, BS Moura, AF DaSilva - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Although pain is a widely known phenomenon and an important clinical symptom that
occurs in numerous diseases, its mechanisms are still barely understood. Owing to the …

Falls, functioning, and disability among women with persistent symptoms of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy

KM Winters-Stone, F Horak, PG Jacobs… - Journal of clinical …, 2017 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) may persist after treatment
ends and may lead to functional decline and falls. This study compared objective and self …

The prevalence of probable neuropathic pain in the US: results from a multimodal general-population health survey

MD DiBonaventura, A Sadosky, K Concialdi… - Journal of pain …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Background The prevalence of neuropathic pain (NeP) has been estimated within specific
health conditions; however, there are no published data on its broad prevalence in the US …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroinflammation—a co-occurring phenomenon linking chronic pain and opioid dependence

CM Cahill, AMW Taylor - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Neuroinflammation in limbic structures co-occurs in both chronic pain and opioid
dependence.•Major depressive disorder is associated with neuroinflammation.•Chronic pain …

Nerve injury–induced epigenetic silencing of opioid receptors controlled by DNMT3a in primary afferent neurons

L Sun, JY Zhao, X Gu, L Liang, S Wu, K Mo, J Feng… - Pain, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Opioids are the gold standard for pharmacological treatment of neuropathic pain, but their
analgesic effects are unsatisfactory in part due to nerve injury–induced downregulation of …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammation and nerve injury minimally affect mouse voluntary behaviors proposed as indicators of pain

TD Sheahan, ER Siuda, MR Bruchas, AJ Shepherd… - Neurobiology of Pain, 2017 - Elsevier
It has been suggested that the lack of rodent behavioral assays that represent the
complexities of human pain contributes to the poor translational record of basic pain …

Neuroprotective effect of liquiritin against neuropathic pain induced by chronic constriction injury of the sciatic nerve in mice

MT Zhang, B Wang, YN Jia, N Liu, PS Ma… - Biomedicine & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Managing of neuropathic pain remains clinically challenging because the existing
pharmacotherapies are either ineffective or non-specific. Therefore, developing novel …

Hyperbaric oxygenation alleviates chronic constriction injury (CCI)-induced neuropathic pain and inhibits GABAergic neuron apoptosis in the spinal cord

H Fu, F Li, S Thomas, Z Yang - Scandinavian journal of pain, 2017 - degruyter.com
Methods Male rats were randomized into 3 groups: CCI, CCI+ HBO and the control group
(SHAM). Mechanical allodynia was tested daily following CCI procedure. HBO rats were …

Prevention of chronic post-surgical pain: the importance of early identification of risk factors

Q Tawfic, K Kumar, Z Pirani, K Armstrong - Journal of anesthesia, 2017 - Springer
Chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP) is currently an inevitable surgical complication. Despite
the advances in surgical techniques and the development of new modalities for pain …