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ArticleThe journal of headache and pain2026

Interpreting the S1BF-ACC-LHb pathway in trigeminal neuralgia-associated affective behavior.

Donghai Chen, Jian Jiang

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Article in The journal of headache and pain, 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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Donghai ChenDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, 116000, China.
Jian JiangDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, 116000, China. enterJJ@163.com.

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Abstract

The study by Wang and colleagues proposes that three connected brain areas link facial nerve injury to pain and depression-like behavior in mice. The experiments are ambitious and potentially important. However, the nerve-injury model differs from the defining pattern of human trigeminal neuralgia, several behavioral and drug controls leave alternative explanations open, and measurements from many cells were not clearly separated from the animals that supplied them. Clarifying these issues, and distinguishing results from whole tissue from results specific to neurons, would make the causal and clinical implications more secure.

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Insular CortexSomatosensory CortexTrigeminal NeuralgiaAnimalsHumansMiceNeural PathwaysAffective behaviorChemogeneticsPseudoreplicationTranscriptomicsTrigeminal neuropathic pain

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PMID42844591
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