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ReviewThe Korean journal of pain2024

Methylcobalamin as a candidate for chronic peripheral neuropathic pain therapy: review of molecular pharmacology actiona.

Amilia Ramadhani, Indwiani Astuti, Maria Goreti Widiastuti, Nunuk Purwanti

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Review in The Korean journal of pain, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Peripheral nerve repair: innovations and future directions.Journal of translational medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Amilia RamadhaniDoctoral Study Program, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4522-5106
Indwiani AstutiDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7008-9192
Maria Goreti WidiastutiDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yoyakarta, Indonesia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7378-6967
Nunuk PurwantiDepartment of Dental Biomedical Science, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4360-6358

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic peripheral neuropathic pain therapy currently focuses on modulating neuroinflammatory conditions. Methylcobalamin (MeCbl), a neuroregenerative agent, modulates neuroinflammation. This review aimed to explore the molecular pharmacology action of MeCbl as a chronic peripheral neuropathic pain therapeutic agent. MeCbl plays a role in various cellular processes and may have therapeutic potential in neurodegenerative diseases. Intracellular MeCbl modulates inflammation by regulating the activity of T lymphocytes and natural killer cells as well as secretion of inflammatory cytokines, namely, tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin-6, interleukin-1β, epidermal growth factor, and neuronal growth factor. MeCbl can reduce pain symptoms in chronic neuropathic pain conditions by decreasing excitation and hyperpolarization-induced ion channel activity in medium-sized dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons and the expression of transient receptor potential ankyrin 1, transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 8, phosphorylated p38MAPK, transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V members 1 and 4 in the DRG, and the voltage-gated sodium channel in axons.

Indexed as

AxonsCytokinesMecobalaminMononeuropathiesNervous SystemNeuralgiaNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeuroinflammatory DiseasesNeuronsPain Management

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PMID39344358
PMCPMC11450300

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