ArticlePloS one2013
Spinal astrocytic activation contributes to mechanical allodynia in a rat chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain model.
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Auricular Point Acupressure to Manage Chemotherapy Induced Neuropathy
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 108 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia on cognitive function in animal models of contemporary protocols: A systematic literature review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Pooled it
- A meta-analytic study of experimental and chronic orofacial pain excluding headache disorders.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2018Pooled it
- Longitudinal plasma neurofilament light chain and patient-reported outcomes as complementary markers of vincristine-associated peripheral neuropathy in adults with lymphoma: a cohort study.Journal of neurology · 2026Observational
- Longitudinal plasma neurofilament light chain and patient-reported outcomes as complementary markers of vincristine-associated peripheral neuropathy in adults with lymphoma: a cohort study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
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- Multifaceted Astrocyte-Neuron Cross-Talk in Neuropathic Pain: Potential Mechanisms and Functional Implications.Journal of pain research · 2026Review
- Is TREM2 a Stretch: Implications of TREM2 Along Spinal Cord Circuits in Health, Aging, Injury, and Disease.Cells · 2025Review
- Unlocking New Therapeutic Options for Vincristine-Induced Neuropathic Pain: The Impact of Preclinical Research.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- TLR-4: a promising target for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.Molecular biology reports · 2024Review
- Molsidomine provides neuroprotection against vincristine-induced peripheral neurotoxicity through soluble guanylyl cyclase activation.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Blockade of Cholecystokinin Type 2 Receptors Prevents the Onset of Vincristine-Induced Neuropathy in Mice.Pharmaceutics · 2022Article
- Glutamatergic systems in neuropathic pain and emerging non-opioid therapies.Pharmacological research · 2022Review
- The protective effect of chemical and natural compounds against vincristine-induced peripheral neuropathy (VIPN).Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2022Review
- The analgesic effects of β-elemene in rats with neuropathic pain by inhibition of spinal astrocytic ERK activation.Molecular pain · 2022Article
- Increased Expression of Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin in Chronic Constriction Injury of Rat Nerve.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Role of innate immunity in chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.Neuroscience letters · 2021Review
- Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Family Ligands, Players at the Interface of Neuroinflammation and Neuroprotection: Focus Onto the Glia.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2021Review
- Brainstem functional oscillations across the migraine cycle: A longitudinal investigation.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2021Article
- Selective activation of metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 blocks paclitaxel-induced acute neuropathic pain and suppresses spinal glial reactivity in rats.Psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Vincristine-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Genetic Variation as a Potential Risk Factor.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain (CNP) is the major dose-limiting factor in cancer chemotherapy. However, the neural mechanisms underlying CNP remain enigmatic. Accumulating evidence implicates the involvement of spinal glia in some neuropathic pain models. In this study, using a vincristine-evoked CNP rat model with obvious mechanical allodynia, we found that spinal astrocyte rather than microglia was dramatically activated. The mechanical allodynia was dose-dependently attenuated by intrathecal administratration of L-α-aminoadipate (astrocytic specific inhibitor); whereas minocycline (microglial specific inhibitor) had no such effect, indicating that spinal astrocytic activation contributes to allodynia in CNP rat. Furthermore, oxidative stress mediated the development of spinal astrocytic activation, and activated astrocytes dramatically increased interleukin-1β expression which induced N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor (NMDAR) phosphorylation in spinal neurons to strengthen pain transmission. Taken together, our findings suggest that spinal activated astrocytes may be a crucial component of the pathophysiology of CNP and "Astrocyte-Cytokine-NMDAR-neuron" pathway may be one detailed neural mechanisms underlying CNP. Thus, inhibiting spinal astrocytic activation may represent a novel therapeutic strategy for treating CNP.
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