Neuropathic pain; what we know and what we should do about it

PA Smith - Frontiers in Pain Research, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Neuropathic pain can result from injury to, or disease of the nervous system. It is notoriously
difficult to treat. Peripheral nerve injury promotes Schwann cell activation and invasion of …

An excitatory lateral hypothalamic circuit orchestrating pain behaviors in mice

JN Siemian, MA Arenivar, S Sarsfield, CB Borja… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Understanding how neuronal circuits control nociceptive processing will advance the search
for novel analgesics. We use functional imaging to demonstrate that lateral hypothalamic …

Opioid-like adverse effects of tianeptine in male rats and mice

TR Baird, HI Akbarali, WL Dewey, H Elder, M Kang… - …, 2022 - Springer
Rationale Tianeptine is a mu-opioid receptor (MOR) agonist with increasing reports of abuse
in human populations. Preclinical data regarding the abuse potential and other opioid-like …

Role of mu opioid receptor (MOR) agonist efficacy as a determinant of opioid antinociception in a novel assay of pain-depressed behavior in female and male mice

SS Negus, HI Akbarali, M Kang, YK Lee… - Frontiers in Pain …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Intermediate efficacy mu opioid receptor (MOR) agonists have potential to retain
analgesic effectiveness while improving safety, but the optimal MOR efficacy for effective …

Effects of ketoprofen and morphine on pain-related depression of nestlet shredding in male and female mice

JB Garner, LS Marshall, NM Boyer, V Alapatt… - Frontiers in Pain …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A primary goal in pain treatment is restoration of behaviors that are disrupted by pain.
Measures of pain interference indicate the degree to which pain interferes with activities in …

Climbing behavior by mice as an endpoint for preclinical assessment of drug effects in the absence and presence of pain

EJ Santos, AN Giddings, FA Kandil… - Frontiers in Pain …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This study evaluated climbing in mice as a tool to assess the expression and treatment of
pain-related behavioral depression in male and female ICR mice. Mice were videotaped …

Effects of Repeated Treatment with the Monoacylglycerol Lipase Inhibitor MJN110 on Pain-Related Depression of Nesting and Cannabinoid 1 Receptor Function in …

CM Diester, H Balint, JC Gillespie, AH Lichtman… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT MJN110 inhibits the enzyme monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) to increase levels
of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol, an endogenous high-efficacy agonist of …

Novel bivalent ligands carrying potential antinociceptive effects by targeting putative mu opioid receptor and chemokine receptor CXCR4 heterodimers

H Ma, M Li, PP Pagare, H Wang, N Nassehi… - Bioorganic …, 2022 - Elsevier
The functional interactions between opioid and chemokine receptors have been implicated
in the pathological process of chronic pain. Mounting studies have indicated the possibility …

[PDF][PDF] Low-Efficacy Mu Opioid Agonists as Candidate Analgesics: Effects of Novel C-9 Substituted Phenylmorphans on Pain-Depressed Behavior in Mice

EJ Santos, HI Akbarali, EW Bow… - … of Pharmacology and …, 2024 - researchgate.net
Low efficacy mu opioid receptor (MOR) agonists may serve as novel candidate analgesics
with improved safety relative to high-efficacy opioids. This study used a recently validated …

Morphine exacerbates experimental colitis-induced depression of nesting in mice

SM Cheatham, KH Muchhala, E Koseli… - Frontiers in Pain …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Opioids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are excellent analgesics, but
recent clinical evidence suggests that these drugs might worsen disease severity in Crohn's …