The role of voltage-gated sodium channels in pain signaling

DL Bennett, AJ Clark, J Huang… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Acute pain signaling has a key protective role and is highly evolutionarily conserved.
Chronic pain, however, is maladaptive, occurring as a consequence of injury and disease …

Discovery and validation of biomarkers to aid the development of safe and effective pain therapeutics: challenges and opportunities

KD Davis, N Aghaeepour, AH Ahn, MS Angst… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Pain medication plays an important role in the treatment of acute and chronic pain
conditions, but some drugs, opioids in particular, have been overprescribed or prescribed …

Multisystem involvement in post‐acute sequelae of coronavirus disease 19

P Novak, SS Mukerji, HS Alabsi, D Systrom… - Annals of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The purpose of this study was to describe cerebrovascular, neuropathic, and
autonomic features of post‐acute sequelae of coronavirus disease 2019 ((COVID‐19) …

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 …

Painful and non-painful diabetic neuropathy, diagnostic challenges and implications for future management

TS Jensen, P Karlsson, SS Gylfadottir, ST Andersen… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Peripheral neuropathy is one of the most common complications of both type 1 and type 2
diabetes. Up to half of patients with diabetes develop neuropathy during the course of their …

Neuropathic pain: principles of diagnosis and treatment

I Gilron, R Baron, T Jensen - Mayo clinic proceedings, 2015 - Elsevier
Neuropathic pain is caused by disease or injury of the nervous system and includes various
chronic conditions that, together, affect up to 8% of the population. A substantial body of …

Studying human nociceptors: from fundamentals to clinic

SJ Middleton, AM Barry, M Comini, Y Li, PR Ray… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Chronic pain affects one in five of the general population and is the third most important
cause of disability-adjusted life-years globally. Unfortunately, treatment remains inadequate …

Neuropathic pain: mechanisms and their clinical implications

SP Cohen, J Mao - Bmj, 2014 - bmj.com
Neuropathic pain can develop after nerve injury, when deleterious changes occur in injured
neurons and along nociceptive and descending modulatory pathways in the central nervous …

The diagnostic challenge of small fibre neuropathy: clinical presentations, evaluations, and causes

AJ Terkelsen, P Karlsson, G Lauria, R Freeman… - The lancet …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Small fibre neuropathies are a heterogeneous group of disorders affecting thinly myelinated
Aδ-fibres and unmyelinated C-fibres. Although multiple causes of small nerve fibre …

Corneal nerves in health and disease

MA Al-Aqaba, VK Dhillon, I Mohammed… - Progress in retinal and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The cornea is the most sensitive structure in the human body. Corneal nerves adapt to
maintain transparency and contribute to corneal health by mediating tear secretion and …