Raquel Prado da Silva, Daniely Messias Costa, João da Cruz-Filho, Tatiane de Oliveira Santos, Hevely Catharine Dos Anjos-Santos, Alan Bruno Silva Vasconcelos, Lilian Carmo Heck, Ísis do Carmo Kettelhut, Luiz Carlos Navegantes, José Ronaldo Dos Santos, Patrícia Rodrigues Marques de Souza, Daniel Badauê-Passos, André Souza Mecawi, Josimari Melo DeSantana, Danilo Lustrino
Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterized by chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue and muscle atrophy. Although its etiology is not known, studies have shown that FM patients exhibit altered function of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), which regulates nociception and muscle plasticity. Nevertheless, the precise SNS-mediated mechanisms governing hyperalgesia and skeletal muscle atrophy in FM remain unclear. Thus, we employed two distinct FM-like pain models, involving intramuscular injections of acidic saline (pH 4...
April 29, 2024: Physiology & Behavior