ReviewTrends in neurosciences2023
Persistent nociceptor hyperactivity as a painful evolutionary adaptation.
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- A positive feedback loop between sensory and octopaminergic neurons underlies nociceptive plasticity in Drosophila larvae.PLoS genetics · 2026Article
- Multi-omic profiling of human and mouse dorsal root ganglia enables targeted gene delivery to nociceptors.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Satellite Glial Cells Control Sensory Neuron Excitability via the Release of Fibulin-2.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Chemical multiplexing in the nervous system: molecular architecture, functional stratification, and pathophysiological plasticity of neuropeptide-classical neurotransmitter cotransmission.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2026Review
- Neural Associative Skill Memories for Safer Robotics and Modeling Human Sensorimotor Repertoires.Neural computation · 2025Article
- 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 · 2025Review
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- Artemin sensitises mouse (Mus musculus) and naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) sensory neurons in vitro.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2025Article
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- From nociception in aneural animals to human suffering: toward a comparative biology of pain.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Review
- Metabolic reprogramming in the spinal cord drives the transition to pain chronicity.Cell reports · 2025Article
- Unraveling the neuroimmune mechanisms in cancer-induced bone pain: New horizons for therapeutic intervention of the two-phase paradigm.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Metabolic reprogramming in the spinal cord drives the transition to pain chronicity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- IMPDH2's Central Role in Cellular Growth and Diseases: A Potential Therapeutic Target.Cell proliferation · 2025Review
- Profiling human iPSC-derived sensory neurons for analgesic drug screening using a multi-electrode array.Cell reports methods · 2025Article
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Abstract
Chronic pain caused by injury or disease of the nervous system (neuropathic pain) has been linked to persistent electrical hyperactivity of the sensory neurons (nociceptors) specialized to detect damaging stimuli and/or inflammation. This pain and hyperactivity are considered maladaptive because both can persist long after injured tissues have healed and inflammation has resolved. While the assumption of maladaptiveness is appropriate in many diseases, accumulating evidence from diverse species, including humans, challenges the assumption that neuropathic pain and persistent nociceptor hyperactivity are always maladaptive. We review studies indicating that persistent nociceptor hyperactivity has undergone evolutionary selection in widespread, albeit selected, animal groups as a physiological response that can increase survival long after bodily injury, using both highly conserved and divergent underlying mechanisms.
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