ReviewCells2023
Sexual Dimorphism in the Mechanism of Pain Central Sensitization.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Sexually Dimorphic Neuroimmune Pathways in Chronic Pain: A Comprehensive Systematic Review of Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms.Biomolecules · 2026Pooled it
- Molecular Mechanisms of Electroacupuncture-Induced Spinal Microglial Reprogramming in Neuropathic Pain: A Systematic Search-Narrative Review.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Chronic Pain.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- SARS-CoV-2 Spike Peptides Trigger Nociceptive Responses Through Spinal TLR4 Pathways.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026Article
- Central Sensitization in Spondyloarthritis: Implications for Personalized Medicine.Journal of personalized medicine · 2026Article
- Cerebellar Tissue Properties Alterations in Fibromyalgia: A T1w/T2w Ratio Study.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Neuroinflammation and Pediatric Chronic Pain - A Review.Current pain and headache reports · 2026Review
- CtBP1-LSD1 complex drives ErbB2 activation via H3K9me2 demethylation in DRGs during paclitaxel-induced neuropathic pain.Cell biology and toxicology · 2025Article
- Symptoms of allodynia and pain thresholds amongst those with acute post-traumatic headache attributed to mild traumatic brain injury: a prospective, longitudinal study.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- Sex differences in phenotypic modulation of microglia by early-life physical stress in a rat model of chronic primary low back pain.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2025Article
- Symptoms of Allodynia and Pain Thresholds Amongst Those with Acute Post-Traumatic Headache Attributed to Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Prospective, Longitudinal Study.Research square · 2025Article
- Sex-Related Differences in Chronic Pain: A Narrative Review by a Multidisciplinary Task Force.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Review
- An Isobolographic Analysis of the Antinociceptive Effect ofNutrients · 2025Article
- Inhibition of S100A4 decreases neurotoxic astrocyte reactivity and attenuates neuropathic pain via the TLR4/NF-κB pathway in a rat model of spinal nerve ligation.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- Capsaicin (But Not Other Vanillins) Enhances Estrogen Binding to Its Receptor: Implications for Power Sports and Cancers.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Disease burden in inflammatory arthritis: an unsupervised machine learning approach of the COVAD-2 e-survey dataset.Rheumatology advances in practice · 2025Article
- What Links Sleep and Neuropathic Pain?: A Literature Review on the Neural Circuits for Sleep and Pain Control.Nature and science of sleep · 2025Review
- Disentangling sex-specific mechanisms in neuropathic and nociplastic chronic pain: a review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- Pain in Long COVID: A scoping review of clinical characteristics and patterns of manifestation.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025Article
- An Open-Source Tool for Investigation of Differential RNA Expression Between Spinal Cord Cells of Male and Female Mice.Journal of neuroscience research · 2024Article
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Abstract
It has long been recognized that men and women have different degrees of susceptibility to chronic pain. Greater recognition of the sexual dimorphism in chronic pain has resulted in increasing numbers of both clinical and preclinical studies that have identified factors and mechanisms underlying sex differences in pain sensitization. Here, we review sexually dimorphic pain phenotypes in various research animal models and factors involved in the sex difference in pain phenotypes. We further discuss putative mechanisms for the sexual dimorphism in pain sensitization, which involves sex hormones, spinal cord microglia, and peripheral immune cells. Elucidating the sexually dimorphic mechanism of pain sensitization may provide important clinical implications and aid the development of sex-specific therapeutic strategies to treat chronic pain.
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