ReviewNeurochemical research2012
Role of astrocytes in pain.
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- Role of astrocytes in diabetic neuropathy: Review of their involvement in disease mechanisms.World journal of diabetes · 2025Review
- Time-restricted feeding modulates neuron-glial interactions and circadian rhythm in the spinal cord of male Wistar rats fed a high-fat diet.Spinal cord · 2025Article
- Syringetin relieves bone cancer pain in rats induced by breast cancer cells through the ESR1/PRDM2 axis.The Korean journal of physiology & pharmacology : official journal of the Korean Physiological Society and the Korean Society of Pharmacology · 2025Article
- GPR37L1 identifies spinal cord astrocytes and protects neuropathic pain after nerve injury.Neuron · 2025Article
- The gut-masticatory muscles-temporomandibular joint pain axis-a scoping review.Journal of oral & facial pain and headache · 2025Article
- Pharmacological Network Analysis of the Functions and Mechanism of Quercetin From Jisuikang (JSK) in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI).Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2024Article
- Changes in Cx43 and AQP4 Proteins, and the Capture of 3 kDa Dextran in Subpial Astrocytes of the Rat Medial Prefrontal Cortex after Both Sham Surgery and Sciatic Nerve Injury.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Effects of fasudil on glial cell activation induced by tooth movement.Progress in orthodontics · 2024Article
- Neuron-astrocyte metabolic coupling facilitates spinal plasticity and maintenance of inflammatory pain.Nature metabolism · 2024Article
- Hyperexcitability of muscle spindle afferents in jaw-closing muscles in experimental myalgia: Evidence for large primary afferents involvement in chronic pain.Experimental physiology · 2024Review
- Daphnetin alleviates neuropathic pain in chronic constrictive injury ratsPharmaceutical biology · 2023Article
- BDNF/TrkB Signaling Inhibition Suppresses Astrogliosis and Alleviates Mechanical Allodynia in a Partial Crush Injury Model.Experimental neurobiology · 2023Article
- Intrathecal administration of conditioned serum from different species resolves Chemotherapy-Induced neuropathic pain in mice via secretory exosomes.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2023Article
- Hevin/Sparcl1 drives pathological pain through spinal cord astrocyte and NMDA receptor signaling.JCI insight · 2022Article
- Modulation of Glia Activation by TRPA1 Antagonism in Preclinical Models of Migraine.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Putative Roles of Astrocytes in General Anesthesia.Current neuropharmacology · 2022Review
- The role of astrocytes in neuropathic pain.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Over the last decade, a series of studies has demonstrated that glia in the central nervous system play roles in many aspects of neuronal functioning including pain processing. Peripheral tissue damage or inflammation initiates signals that alter the function of the glial cells (microglia and astrocytes in particular), which in turn release factors that regulate nociceptive neuronal excitability. Like immune cells, these glial cells not only react at sites of central and/or peripheral nervous system damage but also exert their action at remote sites from the focus of injury or disease. As well as extensive evidence of microglial involvement in various pain states, there is also documentation that astrocytes are involved, sometimes seemingly playing a more dominant role than microglia. The interactions between astrocytes, microglia and neurons are now recognized as fundamental mechanisms underlying acute and chronic pain states. This review focuses on recent advances in understanding of the role of astrocytes in pain states.
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