ReviewCureus2023
Role of Microglia in Neuropathic Pain.
Review in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed.
- Microglia in systemic neuroimmune communication: functions beyond phagocytosis.Trends in immunology · 2026Review
- Identification and validation of candidate biomarkers associated with mitochondria and 18 types of programmed cell death in trigeminal neuralgia: insights from transcriptome sequencing.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2026Article
- Oral administration of boldine reduces neuropathic pain After spared nerve injury in female mice.Pain reports · 2026Article
- Inflammatory Cytokine-Mediated Interactions Between Pain and Insomnia: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications.Journal of pain research · 2026Review
- Dual Role of the Spinal Endocannabinoid System in Response to Noxious Stimuli: Antinociceptive Pathways and Neuropathic Pain Mechanisms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- The Role of the CCR5 Receptor in Neuropathic Pain Modulation: Current Insights and Therapeutic Implications.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Modeling Pain Without Injury: Inherited Rodent Models as Mechanistic Windows into Chronic Pain.Function (Oxford, England) · 2025Review
- Oxidative Stress, Inflammation, and Cellular Senescence in Neuropathic Pain: Mechanistic Crosstalk.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Effect of Microglial Activity on Gut Microbiota in Rats with Neuropathic Pain.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- The Role of TNF-α in Neuropathic Pain: An Immunotherapeutic Perspective.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Orphan Receptor GPR151: Discovery, Expression, and Emerging Biological Significance.ACS chemical neuroscience · 2025Review
- Protein Misfolding and Aggregation as a Mechanistic Link Between Chronic Pain and Neurodegenerative Diseases.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Review
- Causal Relationships Between Neuropathic Pain and Alzheimer's Disease: A Multi-Omics Mendelian Randomization Study with Exploratory Evidence of a Potential Protective Role of Diabetic Neuropathy.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- Histone deacetylases: the critical enzymes for microglial activation involved in neuropathic pain.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- Environmental enrichment for neuropathic pain via modulation of neuroinflammation.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2025Review
- Suppression of Paclitaxel-Induced Neuropathy and Ovarian Tumor Growth by Mn Porphyrin, MnTnBuOE-2-PyPOxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2025Article
- The Role of Phytochemicals in Managing Neuropathic Pain: How Much Progress Have We Made?Nutrients · 2024Review
- How to Distinguish Non-Inflammatory from Inflammatory Pain in RA?Current rheumatology reports · 2024Review
- The Trigeminal Sensory System and Orofacial Pain.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Microglial cells are specialized macrophage cells of the central nervous system responsible for the innate immunity of the spinal cord and the brain. They protect the brain and spinal cord from invaders, microbes, demyelination, trauma and remove defective cells and neurons. For immune protection, microglial cells possess a significant number of receptors and chemical mediators that allow them to communicate rapidly and specifically with all cells of the nervous tissue. The contribution of microglia in neuropathic pain challenges conventional concepts toward neurons being the only structure responsible for the pathophysiological changes that drive neuropathic pain. The present study is a narrative review focusing on the literature concerning the complex interaction between neurons and microglia in the development of neuropathic pain. Injury in the peripheral or central nervous system may result in maladaptive changes in neurons and microglial cells. In neuropathic pain, microglial cells have an important role in initiating and maintenance of pain and inflammation. The interaction between neural and microglial cells has been proven extremely crucial for chronic pain. The study of individual mechanisms at the level of the spinal cord and the brain is an interesting and groundbreaking research challenge. Elucidation of the mechanisms by which neurons and immune cells interact, could constitute microglial cells a new therapeutic target for the treatment of neuropathic pain.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.