General anesthetics activate a potent central pain-suppression circuit in the amygdala

T Hua, B Chen, D Lu, K Sakurai, S Zhao, BX Han… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
General anesthesia (GA) can produce analgesia (loss of pain) independent of inducing loss
of consciousness, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesized that GA …

[HTML][HTML] The efficacy and safety of gabapentin vs. carbamazepine in patients with primary trigeminal neuralgia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

X Zhao, S Ge - Frontiers in Neurology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Drug therapy is the most commonly used treatment for primary trigeminal
neuralgia (PTN), in which carbamazepine is the first-line drug. Recently, the anti-epileptic …

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 …

Unilateral facial injection of Botulinum neurotoxin A attenuates bilateral trigeminal neuropathic pain and anxiety-like behaviors through inhibition of TLR2-mediated …

WJ Chen, JQ Niu, YT Chen, WJ Deng, YY Xu… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Objectives In this study, we investigated the possible analgesic effects of Botulinum toxin
type A (BoNT/A) on trigeminal neuralgia (TN). A modified TN mouse model was established …

The expression of voltage-gated sodium channels in trigeminal nerve following chronic constriction injury in rats

M Liu, J Zhong, L Xia, N Dou, S Li - International Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: Despite the etiology of trigeminal neuralgia has been verified by microvascular
decompression as vascular compression of the trigeminal root, very few researches …

Pretreatment with high mobility group box-1 monoclonal antibody prevents the onset of trigeminal neuropathy in mice with a distal infraorbital nerve chronic …

T Kochi, Y Nakamura, S Ma, K Hisaoka-Nakashima… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Persistent pain following orofacial surgery is not uncommon. High mobility group box 1
(HMGB1), an alarmin, is released by peripheral immune cells following nerve injury and …

Amelioration of nerve demyelination by hydrogen-producing silicon-based agent in neuropathic pain rats

G Mu, Q Li, B Lu, X Yu - International Immunopharmacology, 2023 - Elsevier
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a complex orofacial neuropathic pain. The crippling condition's
underlying mechanism is still not completely understood. The main cause of lightning-like …

[HTML][HTML] Sex difference in trigeminal neuropathic pain response to exercise: role of oxidative stress

Z Rostami, S Ghasemi, H Farzadmanesh… - Pain Research and …, 2020 - hindawi.com
Aim. Orofacial chronic neuropathic pain commonly occurs following trigeminal nerve
injuries. We investigated whether swimming exercise can reduce trigeminal neuropathic …

IL-6 contributes to Nav1.3 up-regulation in trigeminal nerve following chronic constriction injury

MX Liu, J Zhong, L Xia, NN Dou, ST Li - Neurological Research, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background: To verify the hypothesis that the nature of trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is an
ectopic impulse induced by sodium channel modulated by cytokines, we conducted an …

Irritation of dental sensory nerves promotes the occurrence of pulp calcification

C Zhan, M Huang, J Zeng, T Chen, Y Lu, J Chen… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Pulp calcification (PC) often appears in strong association with nerve fiber
bundles, which indicates the important role of dental nerves in the formation of PC …