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ArticleNature communications2026

Spinal signatures of entrenched and treated neuropathic pain in male mice.

Lipin Loo, Kazuma Fujikake, Bryony L Winters, Grace Cunliffe, Sasha Saad, Teleri Clark, Zina Hamoudi, John Manion, Leslie Caron, Olivia C Davis and 5 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 · The registry

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Lipin LooCharles Perkins Centre, Dr. John and Anne Chong Lab for Functional Genomics, and School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4112-1816
Kazuma FujikakeCharles Perkins Centre, Dr. John and Anne Chong Lab for Functional Genomics, and School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9271-8164
Bryony L WintersCharles Perkins Centre, School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4973-0771
Grace CunliffeCharles Perkins Centre, School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
Sasha SaadCharles Perkins Centre, Dr. John and Anne Chong Lab for Functional Genomics, and School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
Teleri ClarkCharles Perkins Centre, Dr. John and Anne Chong Lab for Functional Genomics, and School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
Zina HamoudiCharles Perkins Centre, Dr. John and Anne Chong Lab for Functional Genomics, and School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
John ManionCharles Perkins Centre, Dr. John and Anne Chong Lab for Functional Genomics, and School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2716-3833
Leslie CaronCharles Perkins Centre, Dr. John and Anne Chong Lab for Functional Genomics, and School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4118-2974
Olivia C DavisDepartment of Neuroscience and Center for Advanced Pain Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.
Diana Tavares-FerreiraDepartment of Neuroscience and Center for Advanced Pain Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0986-3630
Stephanie ShiersDepartment of Neuroscience and Center for Advanced Pain Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9646-1850
Joseph E PowellGarvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5070-4124
Theodore J PriceDepartment of Neuroscience and Center for Advanced Pain Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6971-6221
G Gregory NeelyCharles Perkins Centre, Dr. John and Anne Chong Lab for Functional Genomics, and School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia. greg.neely@sydney.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1957-9732

Funding

Mechanistic underpinnings of chronic low back painU19NS130608 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DALLAS · PI Michele Curatolo, Patrick M Dougherty · 2022 to 2026
$13.6M
Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) 1111940Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) 1158165Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) 2011547Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) 2019164Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) 2020590Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) 2047901NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS130608
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic pain caused by peripheral nerve injury involves altered spinal pain transduction, where enhanced excitatory and/or reduced inhibitory pathways can drive pain. The cellular transcriptional changes that sustain entrenched neuropathic pain remain poorly understood. Here we use single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomic approaches in male mice to investigate spinal cellular and molecular programs associated with entrenched and treated neuropathic pain. We show that nerve injury leads to broad upregulation of synaptic and excitatory pathways in dorsal neuronal and glial populations. We confirm that these core populations are conserved in the human spinal cord, and show that an effective pain therapy dampens neuropathic transcriptional programs. These data identify spinal cell populations and pathways associated with neuropathic pain states and therapeutic reversal.

Indexed as

NeuralgiaPeripheral Nerve InjuriesSpinal CordAnimalsHumansMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeurogliaNeuronsTranscriptome

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PMID42457652
PMCPMC13490565

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