Chronic pain in the elderly: mechanisms and perspectives

APA Dagnino, MM Campos - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chronic pain affects a large part of the population causing functional disability, being often
associated with coexisting psychological disorders, such as depression and anxiety …

Diet and chronic non-cancer pain: The state of the art and future directions

K Brain, TL Burrows, L Bruggink, A Malfliet… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nutrition plays an important role in pain management. Healthy eating patterns are
associated with reduced systemic inflammation, as well as lower risk and severity of chronic …

Spinal cord stimulation using differential target multiplexed programming modulates neural cell-specific transcriptomes in an animal model of neuropathic pain

DL Cedeño, WJ Smith, CA Kelley… - Molecular Pain, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Spinal cord stimulation is a proven effective therapy for treating chronic neuropathic pain.
Previous work in our laboratory demonstrated that spinal cord stimulation based on a …

Co-players in chronic pain: neuroinflammation and the tryptophan-kynurenine metabolic pathway

M Tanaka, N Török, F Tóth, Á Szabó, L Vécsei - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chronic pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that persists or recurs
more than three months and may extend beyond the expected time of healing. Recently …

[HTML][HTML] Satellite glial cells in pain research: a targeted viewpoint of potential and future directions

P Gazerani - Frontiers in Pain Research, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chronic pain is known to be caused by sensitization within the pain circuits. An imbalance
occurs between excitatory and inhibitory transmission that enables this sensitization to form …

A novel progress: glial cells and inflammatory pain

H Wang, C Xu - ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 2022 - ACS Publications
Inflammatory pain is the perception of noxious stimuli that occurs during inflammation or an
immune response. Glial cells are widespread in the central and peripheral nervous systems …

Glutamatergic systems in neuropathic pain and emerging non-opioid therapies

R Temmermand, JE Barrett, ACK Fontana - Pharmacological research, 2022 - Elsevier
Neuropathic pain, a disease of the somatosensory nervous system, afflicts many individuals
and adequate management with current pharmacotherapies remains elusive. The …

[PDF][PDF] A therapeutic intervention for Alzheimer's disease using ginsenoside Rg3: Its role in M2 microglial activation and non-amyloidogenesis

JW Ahn, SK Jang, BR Jo, HS Kim, JY Park… - J. Physiol …, 2021 - jpp.krakow.pl
Previously, we have reported that ginsenoside Rg3 has typical activities for neuroprotection
and Aβ42 clearance by modulating microglia. In this study, we determined the pivotal role of …

[HTML][HTML] The role of neuroinflammation in the transition of acute to chronic pain and the opioid-induced hyperalgesia and tolerance

M Echeverria-Villalobos, V Tortorici, BE Brito… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Current evidence suggests that activation of glial and immune cells leads to increased
production of proinflammatory mediators, creating a neuroinflammatory state …

Glial Cells of the Central Nervous System: A Potential Target in Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome

Y Lao, Z Li, Y Bai, W Li, J Wang, Y Wang… - Pain Research and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is one of the most common
diseases of the male urological system while the etiology and treatment of CP/CPPS remain …