Central and peripheral contributions of T-type calcium channels in pain

EK Harding, GW Zamponi - Molecular brain, 2022 - Springer
Chronic pain is a severely debilitating condition that reflects a long-term sensitization of
signal transduction in the afferent pain pathway. Among the key players in this pathway are …

Trigeminal neuralgia and genetics: A systematic review

MA Mannerak, A Lashkarivand, PK Eide - Molecular pain, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a severe facial pain disease of unknown cause and unclear
genetic background. To examine the existing knowledge about genetics in TN, we …

A multi-ancestry genetic study of pain intensity in 598,339 veterans

S Toikumo, R Vickers-Smith, Z Jinwala, H Xu, D Saini… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Chronic pain is a common problem, with more than one-fifth of adult Americans reporting
pain daily or on most days. It adversely affects the quality of life and imposes substantial …

The pathophysiology of trigeminal neuralgia: a molecular review

B Dong, R Xu, M Lim - Journal of neurosurgery, 2023 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to provide a comprehensive overview of the current
understanding of molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of …

Rare variant analyses in large-scale cohorts identified SLC13A1 associated with chronic pain

X Ao, M Parisien, M Zidan, AV Grant, AE Martinsen… - Pain, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Chronic pain is a prevalent disease with increasing clinical challenges. Genome-wide
association studies in chronic pain patients have identified hundreds of common pathogenic …

Progress in animal models of trigeminal neuralgia

X Ma, T Zhu, J Ke - Archives of oral biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective This review aims to systematically summarize the methods of establishing various
models of trigeminal neuralgia (TN), the scope of application, and current animals used in …

Electrophysiological characterization of a CaV3.1 calcium channel mutation linked to trigeminal neuralgia

AM Alaklabi, E Gambeta, GW Zamponi - Pflügers Archiv-European Journal …, 2023 - Springer
Trigeminal neuralgia is a rare and debilitating disorder that affects one or more branches of
the trigeminal nerve, leading to severe pain attacks and a poor quality of life. It has been …

Relating enhancer genetic variation across mammals to complex phenotypes using machine learning

IM Kaplow, AJ Lawler, DE Schäffer, C Srinivasan… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Protein-coding differences between species often fail to explain phenotypic diversity,
suggesting the involvement of genomic elements that regulate gene expression such as …

GABRG1 variant as a potential novel cause of epileptic encephalopathy, hypotonia, and global developmental delay

A Williams, E Cooney, G Segal… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Epileptic encephalopathies (EEs) are severe brain disorders with excessive ictal (seizure)
and interictal (electrographic epileptiform discharges) activity in developing brain which may …

Trigeminal neuralgia

S Ashina, CE Robertson, A Srikiatkhachorn… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a facial pain disorder characterized by intense and paroxysmal
pain that profoundly affects quality of life and presents complex challenges in diagnosis and …