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https://read.qxmd.com/read/36203799/potential-mechanisms-of-acupuncture-for-neuropathic-pain-based-on-somatosensory-system
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REVIEW
Xin Ma, Wen Chen, Na-Na Yang, Lu Wang, Xiao-Wan Hao, Chun-Xia Tan, Hong-Ping Li, Cun-Zhi Liu
Neuropathic pain, caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory system, is common and distressing. In view of the high human and economic burden, more effective treatment strategies were urgently needed. Acupuncture has been increasingly used as an adjuvant or complementary therapy for neuropathic pain. Although the therapeutic effects of acupuncture have been demonstrated in various high-quality randomized controlled trials, there is significant heterogeneity in the underlying mechanisms. This review aimed to summarize the potential mechanisms of acupuncture on neuropathic pain based on the somatosensory system, and guided for future both foundational and clinical studies...
2022: Frontiers in Neuroscience
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36199368/association-of-mu-opioid-receptor-a118g-and-bdnf-g196a-polymorphisms-with-rehabilitation-induced-cortical-inhibition-and-analgesic-response-in-chronic-osteoarthritis-pain
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fernanda de Toledo Gonçalves, Kevin Pacheco-Barrios, Ingrid Rebello-Sanchez, Luis Castelo-Branco, Paulo S de Melo, Joao Parente, Alejandra Cardenas-Rojas, Isabela Firigato, Anne Victorio Pessotto, Marta Imamura, Marcel Simis, Linamara Battistella, Felipe Fregni
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Chronic pain due to osteoarthritis (OA) is a prevalent cause of global disability. New biomarkers are needed to improve treatment allocation, and genetic polymorphisms are promising candidates. METHOD: We aimed to assess the association of OPRM1 (A118G and C17T) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF [G196A]) polymorphisms with pain-related outcomes and motor cortex excitability metrics (measured by transcranial magnetic stimulation) in 113 knee OA patients with chronic pain...
2023: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology: IJCHP
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36179375/an-overview-of-mindfulness-oriented-addiction-and-pain-recovery
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REVIEW
Andrew J Biedlingmaier, Timothy G Yovankin, Maju Mathew Koola, Michael Yanuck, Sajoy Purathumuriyil Varghese
There is evidence that mindfulness-based interventions are effective as stress-reduction techniques in people with various stressor-related disorders. Research also shows overall improvement in mental health well-being in practitioners of mindfulness. However, there is limited literature probing the potential negative impacts of mindfulness practice. Relapse is a major challenge in substance use disorders (SUDs), particularly for people with chronic pain. There is an overlap between SUDs and chronic pain, which share common pathophysiological pathways that could contribute to poor pain control and mental instability...
October 1, 2022: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36188580/potential-therapeutic-effects-and-pharmacological-evidence-of-sinomenine-in-central-nervous-system-disorders
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REVIEW
Hongxiang Hong, Xu Lu, Qun Lu, Chao Huang, Zhiming Cui
Sinomenine is a natural compound extracted from the medicinal plant Sinomenium acutum. Its supplementation has been shown to present benefits in a variety of animal models of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, such as cerebral ischemia, intracerebral hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury (TBI), Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), epilepsy, depression, multiple sclerosis, morphine tolerance, and glioma. Therefore, sinomenine is now considered a potential agent for the prevention and/or treatment of CNS disorders...
2022: Frontiers in Pharmacology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36171828/psychedelics-their-limited-understanding-and-future-in-the-treatment-of-chronic-pain
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REVIEW
Vedant N Hedau, Ashish P Anjankar
Psychedelics are hallucinogenic drugs that alter the state of consciousness substantially. They bring about psychological, auditory, and visual changes. The psychedelics act on the brain, implying that they have a powerful psychological impact. One of the main factors contributing to disability worldwide is pain. The majority of people deal with pain on a daily basis. Living with chronic pain affects daily life and has social implications. Chronic pain can be associated with any disease that may be genetic, idiopathic, or traumatic...
August 2022: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35996205/supraspinal-melatonin-mt-2-receptor-agonism-alleviates-pain-via-a-neural-circuit-that-recruits-mu-opioid-receptors
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Luca Posa, Danilo De Gregorio, Martha Lopez-Canul, Qianzi He, Emmanuel Darcq, Laura Rullo, Leora Pearl-Dowler, Livio Luongo, Sanzio Candeletti, Patrizia Romualdi, Brigitte Lina Kieffer, Gabriella Gobbi
Melatonin, through its G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) (MTNR1B gene) MT2 , is implicated in analgesia, but the relationship between MT2 receptors and the opioid system remains elusive. In a model of rodent neuropathic pain (spared nerve injured [SNI]), the selective melatonin MT2 agonist UCM924 reversed the allodynia (a pain response to a non-noxious stimulus), and this effect was nullified by the pharmacological blockade or genetic inactivation of the mu opioid receptor (MOR), but not the delta opioid receptor (DOR)...
November 2022: Journal of Pineal Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34577147/recent-chemical-and-pharmacological-developments-on-14-oxygenated-n-methylmorphinan-6-ones
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REVIEW
Mariana Spetea, Helmut Schmidhammer
Adequate pain management, particularly chronic pain, remains a major challenge associated with modern-day medicine. Current pharmacotherapy offers unsatisfactory long-term solutions due to serious side effects related to the chronic administration of analgesic drugs. Morphine and structurally related derivatives (e.g., oxycodone, oxymorphone, buprenorphine) are highly effective opioid analgesics, mediating their effects via the activation of opioid receptors, with the mu-opioid receptor subtype as the primary molecular target...
September 18, 2021: Molecules: a Journal of Synthetic Chemistry and Natural Product Chemistry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32607089/the-potential-for-kratom-as-an-antidepressant-and-antipsychotic
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REVIEW
Lindsay E Johnson, Lilian Balyan, Amy Magdalany, Fizza Saeed, Robert Salinas, Starla Wallace, Charles A Veltri, Marc T Swogger, Zach Walsh, Oliver Grundmann
Mitragyna speciosa , otherwise known as kratom, is a plant in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) native to Southeast Asia and Thailand whose leaves have been shown to cause opioid-like and stimulant responses upon ingestion. The major pharmacologically active compounds present in kratom, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-HMG), are both indole alkaloids and are responsible for its opioid-like activity. While kratom is most commonly known for its affinity for mu-opioid receptors, research has shown one of its active components has effects on the same receptors to which some antipsychotics bind, such as D2 dopamine, serotonin (5-HT2C and 5-HT7 ), and alpha-2 adrenergic receptors displaying possible indications of kratom to be used as both antipsychotics and antidepressants...
June 2020: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32788221/editorial-50-years-of-opioid-research-and-the-international-narcotics-research-conference
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EDITORIAL
Manojkumar A Puthenveedu
In the past 50 years, scientists have made considerable strides toward understanding how opioids act. This special issue of Molecular Pharmacology celebrates these 50 years of opioid research and the role that the International Narcotics Research Conference has played in driving this research, by bringing together review and original research articles that present historical highlights, the current state of the art, and perspectives on the future of opioid research. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: Opioids have been used for thousands of years to manage pain and cause euphoria, but their use has been highly limited due to serious side effects...
October 2020: Molecular Pharmacology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31421700/structure-and-dynamics-of-dynorphin-peptide-and-its-receptor
#10
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Guillaume Ferré, Georges Czaplicki, Pascal Demange, Alain Milon
Dynorphin is a neuropeptide involved in pain, addiction and mood regulation. It exerts its activity by binding to the kappa opioid receptor (KOP) which belongs to the large family of G protein-coupled receptors. The dynorphin peptide was discovered in 1975, while its receptor was cloned in 1993. This review will describe: (a) the activities and physiological functions of dynorphin and its receptor, (b) early structure-activity relationship studies performed before cloning of the receptor (mostly pharmacological and biophysical studies of peptide analogues), (c) structure-activity relationship studies performed after cloning of the receptor via receptor mutagenesis and the development of recombinant receptor expression systems, (d) structural biology of the opiate receptors culminating in X-ray structures of the four opioid receptors in their inactive state and structures of MOP and KOP receptors in their active state...
2019: Vitamins and Hormones
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31270360/apparent-effects-of-opioid-use-on-neural-responses-to-reward-in-chronic-pain
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katherine T Martucci, Kelly H MacNiven, Nicholas Borg, Brian Knutson, Sean C Mackey
Neural responses to incentives are altered in chronic pain and by opioid use. To understand how opioid use modulates the neural response to reward/value in chronic pain, we compared brain functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) responses to a monetary incentive delay (MID) task in patients with fibromyalgia taking opioids (N = 17), patients with fibromyalgia not taking opioids (N = 17), and healthy controls (N = 15). Both groups of patients with fibromyalgia taking and not taking opioids had similar levels of pain, psychological measures, and clinical symptoms...
July 3, 2019: Scientific Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31320493/addressing-the-opioid-crisis-medical-student-instruction-in-opioid-drug-pharmacology-pain-management-and-substance-use-disorders
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Brian M Cox, Thomas E Cote, Irwin Lucki
The marked increase in deaths related to opioid drugs after 1999 was associated with an increase in the number of prescriptions for opioid drugs. This was accompanied by increasing demand for improved management of chronically painful conditions. These factors suggest that improvements are needed in the education of physicians with regard to the management of chronic pain, the optimal therapeutic application of opioid drugs, and the avoidance of substance use disorders. In this article, we address the evidence that physician education can influence prescribing practices and we discuss approaches to enhance the preclinical and clinical education of medical students in pain management and substance use disorders...
November 2019: Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30627381/component-analysis-of-the-illegal-handmade-pills-and-capsules-for-self-medicating-substance-dependence-in-tehran-iran
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hamid Reza Khoddami-Vishteh, Hooman Narenjiha, Roya Noori, Azadeh Olyaei, Afsaneh Fard-Sanei, Monir Fekri, Ali Farhoudian
Background: To self-medicate substance dependence, many substance users consume herbal medicines delivered in herbal medicine shops which are prepared through non-standard methods using a variety of different materials. Hence, the present study was carried out aiming to investigate and analyze the content of such herbal medicines. Methods: Four herbal medicine shops were selected from each of the 22 zones of Tehran City, Iran, and a total of 95 samples were purchased...
January 2018: Addiction & Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30454770/pharmacological-research-as-a-key-component-in-mitigating-the-opioid-overdose-crisis
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REVIEW
Michael H Baumann, Theresa A Kopajtic, Bertha K Madras
The United States is experiencing an epidemic of opioid overdose deaths. Many of the recent fatalities are associated with illicitly manufactured fentanyl, which is being added to heroin and counterfeit pain pills. The crisis is further exacerbated by the emergence of an increasing number of novel synthetic opioids (NSOs), including various fentanyl analogs and non-fentanyl compounds that display potent agonist actions at the μ-opioid receptor. Importantly, most users are unaware of their exposure to fentanyl and NSOs...
December 2018: Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28106092/pharmacological-characterisation-of-the-highly-na-v-1-7-selective-spider-venom-peptide-pn3a
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jennifer R Deuis, Zoltan Dekan, Joshua S Wingerd, Jennifer J Smith, Nehan R Munasinghe, Rebecca F Bhola, Wendy L Imlach, Volker Herzig, David A Armstrong, K Johan Rosengren, Frank Bosmans, Stephen G Waxman, Sulayman D Dib-Hajj, Pierre Escoubas, Michael S Minett, Macdonald J Christie, Glenn F King, Paul F Alewood, Richard J Lewis, John N Wood, Irina Vetter
Human genetic studies have implicated the voltage-gated sodium channel NaV 1.7 as a therapeutic target for the treatment of pain. A novel peptide, μ-theraphotoxin-Pn3a, isolated from venom of the tarantula Pamphobeteus nigricolor, potently inhibits NaV 1.7 (IC50 0.9 nM) with at least 40-1000-fold selectivity over all other NaV subtypes. Despite on-target activity in small-diameter dorsal root ganglia, spinal slices, and in a mouse model of pain induced by NaV 1.7 activation, Pn3a alone displayed no analgesic activity in formalin-, carrageenan- or FCA-induced pain in rodents when administered systemically...
January 20, 2017: Scientific Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29722031/indirect-acting-strategy-of-opioid-action-instead-of-direct-receptor-activation-dual-acting-enkephalinase-inhibitors-denkis
#16
REVIEW
R B Raffa, J V Pergolizzi, R Taylor, M H Ossipov
WHAT IS KNOWN AND OBJECTIVE: Although pain is one of the most common afflictions, it is often inadequately managed because the available analgesic options are relatively limited due to insufficient efficacy, unacceptable adverse effects or the potential for misuse or abuse. However, recent publications suggest that an alternative approach-indirect enhancement of endogenous pain-relieving pathways-might be desirable. We review this approach, in particular the dual enkephalinase inhibitors (DENKIs)...
August 2018: Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30462318/the-association-between-acupuncture-training-and-opioid-prescribing-practices
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paul Crawford, Jeremy T Jackson, Christy J W Ledford
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
May 1, 2019: Pain Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30403753/a-computational-strategy-for-finding-novel-targets-and-therapeutic-compounds-for-opioid-dependence
#18
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xiaojun Wu, Siwei Xie, Lirong Wang, Peihao Fan, Songwei Ge, Xiang-Qun Xie, Wei Wu
Opioids are widely used for treating different types of pains, but overuse and abuse of prescription opioids have led to opioid epidemic in the United States. Besides analgesic effects, chronic use of opioid can also cause tolerance, dependence, and even addiction. Effective treatment of opioid addiction remains a big challenge today. Studies on addictive effects of opioids focus on striatum, a main component in the brain responsible for drug dependence and addiction. Some transcription regulators have been associated with opioid addiction, but relationship between analgesic effects of opioids and dependence behaviors mediated by them at the molecular level has not been thoroughly investigated...
2018: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30340346/modulation-of-opioid-transport-at-the-blood-brain-barrier-by-altered-atp-binding-cassette-abc-transporter-expression-and-activity
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REVIEW
Junzhi Yang, Bianca G Reilly, Thomas P Davis, Patrick T Ronaldson
Opioids are highly effective analgesics that have a serious potential for adverse drug reactions and for development of addiction and tolerance. Since the use of opioids has escalated in recent years, it is increasingly important to understand biological mechanisms that can increase the probability of opioid-associated adverse events occurring in patient populations. This is emphasized by the current opioid epidemic in the United States where opioid analgesics are frequently abused and misused. It has been established that the effectiveness of opioids is maximized when these drugs readily access opioid receptors in the central nervous system (CNS)...
October 18, 2018: Pharmaceutics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30240785/geranylgeranylacetone-blocks-the-reinstatement-of-morphine-conditioned-place-preference
#20
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ningning Guo, Xianwen Zhang, Mengbing Huang, Xiang Li, Ye Li, Xiaoshuang Zhou, Jie Bai
Morphine is widely used for clinical pain management and induces the dependence. Addiction to morphine is a major public health issue. Geranylgeranylacetone (GGA) is widely used in clinic for treating ulcer. GGA induces expression of thioredoxin-1 (Trx-1) extensively. Trx-1 is a redox regulating protein and plays protecting roles in nervous system. GGA prevents mice against morphine-induced hyperlocomotion, rewarding effect, and withdrawal syndrome. However, whether GGA blocks morphine-conditioned place preference (CPP) reinstatement is still unknown...
December 2018: Neuropharmacology
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