Capsaicin: current understanding of its mechanisms and therapy of pain and other pre-clinical and clinical uses

V Fattori, MSN Hohmann, AC Rossaneis… - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
In this review, we discuss the importance of capsaicin to the current understanding of
neuronal modulation of pain and explore the mechanisms of capsaicin-induced pain. We …

[HTML][HTML] Fight fire with fire: Neurobiology of capsaicin-induced analgesia for chronic pain

V Arora, JN Campbell, MK Chung - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2021 - Elsevier
Capsaicin, the pungent ingredient in chili peppers, produces intense burning pain in
humans. Capsaicin selectively activates the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) …

Brain mechanisms mediating effects of stress on reward sensitivity

M Ironside, P Kumar, MS Kang, DA Pizzagalli - Current opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Stress preferentially perturbates reward anticipation (rather than
consumption).•Cortico–striatal–limbic network dysregulation subserves stress effects on …

Awake mouse imaging: from two-photon microscopy to blood oxygen level–dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging

M Desjardins, K Kılıç, M Thunemann, C Mateo… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in awake behaving mice is well
positioned to bridge the detailed cellular-level view of brain activity, which has become …

Rat models of human diseases and related phenotypes: a systematic inventory of the causative genes

C Szpirer - Journal of biomedical science, 2020 - Springer
The laboratory rat has been used for a long time as the model of choice in several
biomedical disciplines. Numerous inbred strains have been isolated, displaying a wide …

Ginger extract and its compound, 6-shogaol, attenuates painful diabetic neuropathy in mice via reducing TRPV1 and NMDAR2B expressions in the spinal cord

FA Fajrin, AE Nugroho, A Nurrochmad… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance In silico data revealed that the active compound of ginger
(Zingiber officinale Roscoe), 6-shogaol, has strong affinity toward transient receptor potential …

Applications in awake animal magnetic resonance imaging

CF Ferris - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There are numerous publications on methods and applications for awake functional MRI
across different species, eg, voles, rabbits, cats, dogs, and rhesus macaques. Each of these …

Where do we stand on fMRI in awake mice?

F Mandino, S Vujic, J Grandjean, EMR Lake - Cerebral cortex, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Imaging awake animals is quickly gaining traction in neuroscience as it offers a means to
eliminate the confounding effects of anesthesia, difficulties of inter-species translation (when …

Primary role of the amygdala in spontaneous inflammatory pain-associated activation of pain networks–a chemogenetic manganese-enhanced MRI approach

D Arimura, K Shinohara, Y Takahashi… - Frontiers in Neural …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Chronic pain is a major health problem, affecting 10–30% of the population in developed
countries. While chronic pain is defined as “a persistent complaint of pain lasting for more …

Characterization of incisional and inflammatory pain in rats using functional tools of MRI

S Amirmohseni, D Segelcke, S Reichl, L Wachsmuth… - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
Underlying mechanisms of hyperalgesia differ with regard to the pain entities, which are well-
modeled in animals for systematic studies. However, neuroimaging in different animal pain …