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ArticleScience advances2025

Opposite regulation of medullary pain-related projection neuron excitability in acute and chronic pain.

Ben Title, Enrique Velasco, Nurit Engelmayer, Prudhvi Raj Rayi, Roy Yanai, Shmuel Hart, Ben Katz, Shaya Lev, Yosef Yarom, Alexander M Binshtok

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Ben TitleDepartment of Medical Neurobiology, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-4358-3595
Enrique VelascoDepartment of Medical Neurobiology, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-7299-0750
Nurit EngelmayerDepartment of Medical Neurobiology, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Prudhvi Raj RayiDepartment of Medical Neurobiology, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-2268-9406
Roy YanaiDepartment of Medical Neurobiology, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.ORCID 0009-0004-5305-5205
Shmuel HartDepartment of Medical Neurobiology, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-9869-9582
Ben KatzDepartment of Medical Neurobiology, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-4852-0879
Shaya LevDepartment of Medical Neurobiology, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Yosef YaromThe Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-5483-1972
Alexander M BinshtokDepartment of Medical Neurobiology, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-3620-8116

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pain hypersensitivity is associated with increased activity of peripheral and central neurons along the pain neuroaxis. We show that at the peak of acute inflammatory pain, superficial medullary dorsal horn projection neurons (PNs) that relay nociceptive information to the parabrachial nucleus reduce their intrinsic excitability and, consequently, action potential firing. When pain resolves, the excitability of these neurons returns to baseline. Using electrophysiological and computational approaches, we found that an increase in potassium A-current (

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Acute PainChronic PainMedulla OblongataNeuronsPosterior Horn CellsAction PotentialsAnimalsMaleRatsSpinal Cord Dorsal Horn

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PMID40540577
PMCPMC12180496

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