期刊
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
卷 39, 期 4, 页码 523-537出版社
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-018-0618-1
关键词
Neurosteroids; Neuroactive steroids; Progesterone; Allopregnanolone; Neuropathic pain; Spinal cord; Dorsal root ganglia; Mitochondria
资金
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas [PIP 112 20150100266]
- Fundacion Rene Baron
- Fundacion Williams
- Universite de Strasbourg
- Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale
- Association Ti'toine de Normandie
In the last decades, an active and stimulating area of research has been devoted to explore the role of neuroactive steroids in pain modulation. Despite challenges, these studies have clearly contributed to unravel the multiple and complex actions and potential mechanisms underlying steroid effects in several experimental conditions that mimic human chronic pain states. Based on the available data, this review focuses mainly on progesterone and its reduced derivative allopregnanolone (also called 3 alpha,5 alpha-tetrahydroprogesterone) which have been shown to prevent or even reverse the complex maladaptive changes and pain behaviors that arise in the nervous system after injury or disease. Because the characterization of new related molecules with improved specificity and enhanced pharmacological profiles may represent a crucial step to develop more efficient steroid-based therapies, we have also discussed the potential of novel synthetic analogs of allopregnanolone as valuable molecules for the treatment of neuropathic pain.
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