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NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
Volume 41, Issue 4, Pages 299-332Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(01)00289-9
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prostaglandins; nociceptin/orphanin FQ; nocistatin; allodynia; hyperalgesia; knockout mice; neural plasticity; nerve regeneration
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While acute pain has a fundamental role to operate a protective system, chronic pain associated with inflammation and nerve injury often outlasts its biological usefulness. Therefore, there has recently been great interest in the neurochemical mechanisms of hyperalgesia to noxious stimuli and tactile pain (allodynia) to innocuous stimuli with a hope to relieve persistent, intractable pain. Over several decades non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids have been employed for clinical management of pain. The introduction of molecular biology to pain research has enabled us to describe the mechanism of pain at the molecular level and to develop analgesics with selectivity for targets and with less adverse effects. This review focuses on current knowledge concerning mechanisms and pathways for pain induced by prostaglandins and their interactions with novel neuropeptides nociceptin/orphanin FQ and nocistatin derived from the same opioid precursor protein. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. and the Japan Neuroscience Society. All rights reserved.
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