Immune and glial regulation of pain
By: editors, Joyce A. De Leo, Linda S. Sorkin, Linda R. Watkins.
Contributors: De Leo, Joyce A., 1960-; Sorkin, Linda S., 1953-; Watkins, Linda R., 1954-; International Association for the Study of Pain.
Publisher: IASP Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780931092671
Subjects: Pain -- Pathophysiology; Neuroimmunology; Inflammation -- Mediators; Neuroglia; Pain -- metabolism; Analgesics -- therapeutic use; Chronic Disease -- drug therapy; Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factors -- physiology; Pain -- drug therapy; Peripheral Nerves -- metabolism
Description: "Review of immune and glial factors within the peripheral and central nervous systems that relate to chronic pain states. Discussion of novel immune and glial targets for clinical pain control that may yield new analgesic drugs"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Immune cells in peripheral nerve / Linda S. Sorkin and Maria Schäfers; title: Role of astrocytes and microglia in pain memory / Leif Hertz and Elisabeth Hansson; title: Intracellular signaling cascades in glia / Etty N. Benveniste; title: Pain facilitation by proinflammatory cytokine actions at peripheral nerve terminals / Thiago M. Cunha ... [et al.]; title: Proinflammatory cytokines and neuropathic pain: retrograde signaling and dorsal root ganglion changes after peripheral nerve injury / Maria Schäfers, Claudia Sommer, and Linda S. Sorkin; title: Analgesic effects of immune-cell-derived opioids / Halina Machelska and Christoph Stein; title: Chemokines and their receptors in the nervous system: a link to neuropathic pain / Fletcher A. White, Patrick E. Monahan, and Robert H. LaMotte; title: Electrophysiological evidence of enhanced nociceptive transmission in response to dorsal root exposure to nucleus pulposus / Jason M. Cuellar and Earl Carstens; title: Peripheral nerve injury and protection by erythropoietin: dorsal root ganglion signaling cascades and chronic pain / W. Marie Campana; title: Inflammation of dorsal root ganglia: satellite cell activation and immune cell recruitment after nerve injury / Elspeth M. McLachlan and Ping Hu; title: Cytokine Regulation of ion channels in the pain pathway / Maria Elena P. Morales and Robert W. Gereau; title: AMPAR synaptic and surface localization is altered by glial-derived TNF-alpha: relevance to hyperalgesia and central sensitization / Eric C. Beattie and David Stellwagen; title: Astrocyte signaling systems in physiology and pathology / Biljana Djukic, Todd Fiacco, and Ken D. McCarthy; title: Steroid hormone regulation of astrocyte function: implications for central nervous system sensitization / Michael L. LaCroix-Fralish and Joyce A. De Leo; title: The role of ERK/MAPK in spinal glia for neuropathic pain: signal transduction in spinal microglia and astrocytes after nerve injury / Ru-Rong Ji; title: Role of ATP and microglia in enhanced pain states / Simon Beggs, Tuan Trang, and Michael W. Salter; title: The role of p38 in microglial regulation of spinal pain processing / Camilla I. Svensson, Tony L. Yaksh, and Linda S. Sorkin; title: Glially driven enhancement of pain and its control by anti-inflammatory cytokines / Erin D. Milligan ... [et al.]; title: Modulating glial activation in opioid tolerance and neuropathic pain: a role for glutamate transporters / Vivianne L. Tawfik and Joyce A. De Leo; title: Proinflammatory cytokines modulate neuropathic pain, opioid analgesia, and opioid tolerance / Yehuda Shavit ... [et al.]; title: New perspectives on sciatica / Jaro Karppinen; title: Immunomodulatory therapies for complex regional pain syndrome: thalidomide and beyond / Donald C. Manning; title: Cytokine profiles in patients with chronic widespread pain / Nurcan Üçeyler and Claudia Sommer.