The role of descending pain modulation in chronic primary pain: potential application of drugs targeting serotonergic system

ZY Tao, PX Wang, SQ Wei, RJ Traub, JF Li… - Neural …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic primary pain (CPP) is a group of diseases with long‐term pain and functional
disorders but without structural or specific tissue pathologies. CPP is becoming a serious …

[HTML][HTML] 5-HT7 receptors as modulators of neuronal excitability, synaptic transmission and plasticity: physiological role and possible implications in autism spectrum …

L Ciranna, MV Catania - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Serotonin type 7 receptors (5-HT7) are expressed in several brain areas, regulate brain
development, synaptic transmission and plasticity, and therefore are involved in various …

Serotonergic mechanisms of trigeminal meningeal nociception: implications for migraine pain

E Kilinc, C Guerrero-Toro, A Zakharov, C Vitale… - …, 2017 - Elsevier
Serotonergic mechanisms play a central role in migraine pathology. However, the region-
specific effects of serotonin (5-HT) mediated via multiple types of receptors in the nociceptive …

Structure-Based Design of a Chemical Probe Set for the 5-HT5A Serotonin Receptor

A Levit Kaplan, RT Strachan, JM Braz… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The 5-HT5A receptor (5-HT5AR), for which no selective agonists and a few antagonists
exist, remains the least understood serotonin receptor. A single commercial antagonist, SB …

[HTML][HTML] Regular physical activity prevents development of chronic muscle pain through modulation of supraspinal opioid and serotonergic mechanisms

RG Brito, LA Rasmussen, KA Sluka - Pain reports, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The purpose was to examine central inhibitory mechanisms involved in
analgesia produced by wheel running. Methods: C57/Black6 mice were given access to …

[HTML][HTML] Monoamines as drug targets in chronic pain: focusing on neuropathic pain

L Bravo, M Llorca-Torralba, E Berrocoso… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Monoamines are involved in regulating the endogenous pain system and indeed, peripheral
and central monoaminergic dysfunction has been demonstrated in certain types of pain …

[HTML][HTML] Role of descending serotonergic fibers in the development of pathophysiology after spinal cord injury (SCI): Contribution to chronic pain, spasticity, and …

GNK Fauss, KE Hudson, JW Grau - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Fiber pathways that descend from the brain to the spinal cord drive motor
behavior and modulate incoming sensory signals and the capacity to change (plasticity). A …

5‐hydroxytryptamine in migraine: The puzzling role of ionotropic 5‐HT3 receptor in the context of established therapeutic effect of metabotropic 5‐HT1 subtypes

R Giniatullin - British Journal of Pharmacology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
5‐hydroxytryptamine (5‐HT; serotonin) is traditionally considered as a key mediator
implicated in migraine. Multiple 5‐HT receptor subtypes contribute to a variety of region …

Neuronal and molecular mechanisms underlying chronic pain and depression comorbidity in the paraventricular thalamus

M Cui, R Ji, L Song, X Wang, X Pan, Y Han… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Patients with chronic pain often develop comorbid depressive symptoms, which makes the
pain symptoms more complicated and refractory. However, the underlying mechanisms are …

Monoaminergic mediation of hyperalgesic and analgesic descending control of nociception in mice

W Nemoto, D Kozak, SG Sotocinal, S Tansley… - Pain, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Descending control of nociception (DCN; also known as conditioned pain modulation [CPM],
the behavioral correlate of diffuse noxious inhibitory controls) is the phenomenon whereby …