Acutely,pain serves to protect us from potentially harmful stimuli,however damage to the somatosensory system can cause maladaptive changes in neurons leading to chronic pain.Although acute pain is fairly well control...Acutely,pain serves to protect us from potentially harmful stimuli,however damage to the somatosensory system can cause maladaptive changes in neurons leading to chronic pain.Although acute pain is fairly well controlled,chronic pain remains difficult to treat.Chronic pain is primarily a neuropathic condition,but studies examining the mechanisms underlying chronic pain are now looking beyond afferent nerve lesions and exploring new receptor targets,immune cells,and the role of the autonomic nervous system in contributing chronic pain conditions.The studies outlined in this review reveal how chronic pain is not only confined to alterations in the nervous system and presents findings on new treatment targets and for this debilitating disease.展开更多
Dear Editor,Essential for survival,mechanical sensation is detected and transmited to the spinal cord by primary sensory afferents and their cell bodies located in the dorsal root ganglia(DRG).Multiple types of mechan...Dear Editor,Essential for survival,mechanical sensation is detected and transmited to the spinal cord by primary sensory afferents and their cell bodies located in the dorsal root ganglia(DRG).Multiple types of mechanically sensitive DRG neurons have been identified that mediate various mechanosensation modalities(e.g.non-painful versus painful).展开更多
文摘Acutely,pain serves to protect us from potentially harmful stimuli,however damage to the somatosensory system can cause maladaptive changes in neurons leading to chronic pain.Although acute pain is fairly well controlled,chronic pain remains difficult to treat.Chronic pain is primarily a neuropathic condition,but studies examining the mechanisms underlying chronic pain are now looking beyond afferent nerve lesions and exploring new receptor targets,immune cells,and the role of the autonomic nervous system in contributing chronic pain conditions.The studies outlined in this review reveal how chronic pain is not only confined to alterations in the nervous system and presents findings on new treatment targets and for this debilitating disease.
基金This work was supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.We thank Dennis Chang and Michael J.Caterina for assisting with the data analysis.
文摘Dear Editor,Essential for survival,mechanical sensation is detected and transmited to the spinal cord by primary sensory afferents and their cell bodies located in the dorsal root ganglia(DRG).Multiple types of mechanically sensitive DRG neurons have been identified that mediate various mechanosensation modalities(e.g.non-painful versus painful).
