Abstract / Description of output
Chronic established pain, especially that following nerve injury, is difficult to treat and represents a largely unmet therapeutic need. New insights are urgently required, and we reasoned that endogenous processes such as cooling-induced analgesia may point the way to novel strategies for intervention. Molecular receptors for cooling have been identified in sensory nerves, and we demonstrate here how activation of one of these, TRPM8, produces profound, mechanistically novel analgesia in chronic pain states.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1591-605 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Current biology : CB |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 16 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 22 Aug 2006 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Acrolein
- Amino Acids
- Analgesia
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Blotting, Western
- Cold Temperature
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Electrophysiology
- Immunohistochemistry
- Male
- Menthol
- Neuralgia
- Oligonucleotides, Antisense
- Pyrimidinones
- Rats
- Rats, Wistar
- Receptors, Glutamate
- Reflex
- TRPM Cation Channels
- Xanthenes