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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 3, Pages 490-496Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2006.11.016
Keywords
pain; sensory neuron; inflammatory mediator; ion channel; neurotransmitter
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- Wellcome Trust Funding Source: Medline
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Pain is the major reason patients seek medical care. The treatment of pain, particularly chronic pain associated with cancer and damage to the nervous system, is at present inadequate. Lack of effective analgesics is partly due to the fact that pain signalling mechanisms are still not fully understood. Over the recent years, many channels, receptors, and regulatory proteins involved in pain pathways have bee identified, and novel pain signalling mechanisms and pathways at peripheral and spinal levels have been discovered. It is anticipated that increased understanding of the molecular mechanisms of pain would provide a hope for the future development of effective pain killers. This review examines the currently available information on the molecular aspects, of pain signalling pathways, and discusses novel and promising therapeutic targets for the treatment of pain in humans. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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