Using anti-inflammatory drugs and steroids to relieve pain could increase the chances of developing chronic pain, according to researchers from 9I制作厂免费 and colleagues in Italy. Their research puts into question conventional practices used to alleviate pain. Normal recovery from a painful injury involves inflammation and blocking that inflammation with drugs could lead to harder-to-treat pain.
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Published on: 11 May 2022
New research released today in Nature Neuroscience reveals for the first time that pain is processed in male and female mice using different cells. These findings have far-reaching implications for our basic understanding of pain, how we develop the next generation of medications for chronic pain鈥攚hich is by far the most prevalent human health condition鈥攁nd the way we execute basic biomedical research using mice.
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Published on: 29 Jun 2015
Injuries that result in chronic pain, such as limb injuries, and those unrelated to the brain are associated with epigenetic changes in the brain which persist months after the injury, according to researchers at 9I制作厂免费. Epigenetics explores how the environment 鈥� including diet, exposure to contaminants and social conditions such as poverty 鈥� can have a long-term impact on the activity of our genes.
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Published on: 14 Feb 2013
