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ReviewJournal of neurology2018

Advances in understanding nociception and neuropathic pain.

Ewan St John Smith

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of neurology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 125 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
125citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
8.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

125 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 278 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Evaluating FABP5 as a Therapeutic Target for Pain Management.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026
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  12. Not Just Neurons: Pain Is Orchestrated in Partnership with Many Non-neuronal Cells.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  13. Variations of nociception level (NOLBMC anesthesiology · 2025
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65 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Ewan St John SmithDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1PD, UK. es336@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2699-1979
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Arthritis Research UK 20930Rosetrees Trust A1296Versus Arthritis 20930
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pain results from the activation of a subset of sensory neurones termed nociceptors and has evolved as a "detect and protect" mechanism. However, lesion or disease in the sensory system can result in neuropathic pain, which serves no protective function. Understanding how the sensory nervous system works and what changes occur in neuropathic pain are vital in identifying new therapeutic targets and developing novel analgesics. In recent years, technologies such as optogenetics and RNA-sequencing have been developed, which alongside the more traditional use of animal neuropathic pain models and insights from genetic variations in humans have enabled significant advances to be made in the mechanistic understanding of neuropathic pain.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansNeuralgiaNociceptionOptogeneticsSensory Receptor CellsSequence Analysis, RNAChemogeneticsNeurocircuitryNeuropathic painNociceptorOptogeneticsVoltage gated sodium channel (NaV)

Identifiers

PMID29032407
PMCPMC5808094
OpenAlexW2762329945

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