ReviewCancers2024
Targeting TRPV1 for Cancer Pain Relief: Can It Work?
Review in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
- ZNF143 suppresses mitophagy to drive MASLD progression by regulating SMURF1/TRPV1 axis.Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG · 2026Article
- Multimodal Management of Pain in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Mechanism-Based Approach.Current pain and headache reports · 2026Review
- TRPV1 Receptor Modulators: Emerging Therapies for Neuropathic, Osteoarthritic, and Perioperative Pain.CNS drugs · 2026Review
- Actions of Midostaurin as Cation Channel and Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Cell Lines.Cancers · 2026Article
- The Neuro-Bone Axis in Metastatic Progression: Innervation, Neuro-Immune-Osteoclast Crosstalk, and Therapeutic Opportunities.Biology · 2026Review
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- Behavioral assessment of pain in rodents: advances from evoked responses to spontaneous states and multimodal approaches.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Perineural Invasion in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: Recapitulating Its Importance and Defining Future Directions.United European gastroenterology journal · 2025Review
- Morphological Correlates of TRPV1 Agonist-Induced Activation and Defunctionalization of Nociceptor Neurons.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- The Missing Link: Integrating Interventional Pain Management in the Era of Multimodal Oncology.Pain and therapy · 2025Review
- Role of TRP Channels in Cancer-Induced Bone Pain.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Targeting Perineural Invasion in Pancreatic Cancer.Cancers · 2024Review
- Unraveling TRPV1's Role in Cancer: Expression, Modulation, and Therapeutic Opportunities with Capsaicin.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Targeting TRPV4 Channels for Cancer Pain Relief.Cancers · 2024Review
- NGF-mediated crosstalk: unraveling the influence of metabolic deregulation on the interplay between neural and pancreatic cancer cells and its impact on patient outcomes.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Chronic intractable pain affects a large proportion of cancer patients, especially those with metastatic bone disease. Blocking sensory afferents for cancer pain relief represents an attractive alternative to opioids and other drugs acting in the CNS in that sensory nerve blockers are not addictive and do not affect the mental state of the patient. A distinct subpopulation of sensory afferents expresses the capsaicin receptor TRPV1. Intrathecal resiniferatoxin, an ultrapotent capsaicin analog, ablates TRPV1-expressing nerve endings exposed to the cerebrospinal fluid, resulting in permanent analgesia in women with cervical cancer metastasis to the pelvic bone. High-dose capsaicin patches are effective pain killers in patients with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathic pain. However, large gaps remain in our knowledge since the mechanisms by which cancer activates TRPV1 are essentially unknown. Most important, it is not clear whether or not sensory denervation mediated by TRPV1 agonists affects cancer progression. In a murine model of breast cancer, capsaicin desensitization was reported to accelerate progression. By contrast, desensitization mediated by resiniferatoxin was found to block melanoma growth. These observations imply that TRPV1 blockade for pain relief may be indicated for some cancers and contraindicated for others. In this review, we explore the current state of this field and compare the analgesic potential of TRPV1 antagonism and sensory afferent desensitization in cancer patients.
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