ReviewEuropean journal of pain (London, England)2021
Metabolomics in chronic pain research.
Review in European journal of pain (London, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Cold induced pain elicits reproducible breath metabolomic responses across geographically distinct populations.iScience · 2026Article
- Point-of-care Diagnostic Framework for Fibromyalgia Using Integrated Vibrational Spectroscopy and Metabolomics.Research square · 2026Article
- Personalizing treatment of pancreatitis-associated chronic pain: the need for an integrated omics approach.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026Review
- Urinary betaine/creatinine ratio enhances diagnostic accuracy of PLA2R-Ab in idiopathic membranous nephropathy.BMC nephrology · 2025Article
- Exploring salivary metabolites as biomarkers in chronic craniofacial and orofacial pain: a metabolomic analysis.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2025Article
- Puerarin Improves Cancer-Induced Bone Pain by Recovering Mitochondrial Dysfunction in the Spinal Cord.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2025Article
- Altered aminoacid and lipid metabolism in a rat orofacial inflammation model determined by omics approach: potential role in trigeminal sensitisation.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- Cerebrospinal fluid metabolomics of pain in patients with spinal muscle atrophy.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Salivary Metabolomics as a Diagnostic Tool: Distinct Metabolic Profiles Across Orofacial Pain Subtypes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Blood metabolomic profile in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain.Journal of diabetes investigation · 2025Article
- Causal Association Between Genetically Predicted Circulating Metabolites and Pressure Ulcers: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Article
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- Transcutaneous intravascular laser irradiation of blood affects plasma metabolites of women.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Lipid Alterations in Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain in the Chinese Population: A Metabolomic and Lipidomic Study.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Machine learning identifies fatigue as a key symptom of fibromyalgia reflected in tyrosine, purine, pyrimidine, and glutaminergic metabolism.Clinical and translational science · 2024Article
- Sturgeon-derived peptide LLLE alleviates colitis via regulating gut microbiota and its metabolites.Current research in food science · 2024Article
- Causal relationship between plasma metabolites and carpal tunnel syndrome risk: evidence from a mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2024Article
- A new perspective of frozen shoulder pathology; the interplay between the brain and the immune system.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectiveMetabolomics deals with the identification and quantification of small molecules (metabolites) in biological samples. As metabolite levels can reflect normal or altered metabolic pathways, their measurement provides information to improve the understanding, diagnosis and management of diseases. Despite its immense potential, metabolomics applications to pain research have been sparse. This paper describes current metabolomics techniques, reviews published human metabolomics pain research and compares successful metabolomics research in other areas of medicine with the goal of highlighting opportunities offered by metabolomics to advance pain medicine. DATABASES AND DATA TREATMENT: Non-systematic review.
resultsOur search identified 19 studies that adopted a metabolomics approach in: fibromyalgia (7), chronic widespread pain (4), other musculoskeletal pain conditions (5), neuropathic pain (1), complex regional pain syndrome (1) and pelvic pain (1). The studies used either mass spectrometry or nuclear magnetic resonance. Most are characterized by small sample sizes. Some consistency has been found for alterations in glutamate and testosterone metabolism, and metabolic imbalances caused by the gut microbiome.
conclusionsMetabolomics research in chronic pain is in its infancy. Most studies are at the pilot stage. Metabolomics research has been successful in other areas of medicine. These achievements should motivate investigators to expand metabolomics research to improve the understanding of the basic mechanisms of human pain, as well as provide tools to diagnose, predict and monitor chronic pain conditions. Metabolomics research can lead to the identification of biomarkers to support the development and testing of treatments, thereby facilitating personalized pain medicine.
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