Journal ArticleCephalalgia · February 2023
BACKGROUND: OnabotulinumtoxinA (onabotA) is approved globally for prevention of chronic migraine; however, the classical mechanism of action of onabotA in motor and autonomic neurons cannot fully explain the effectiveness of onabotulinumtoxinA in this sens ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Top Membr · 2022
Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) channels are multi-modally activated cation permeable channels that are expressed most organ tissues including the skin. TRPV4 is highly expressed in the skin and functions in skin resident cells such as epi ...
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Journal ArticleGastroenterology · July 2021
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Limited understanding of pruritus mechanisms in cholestatic liver diseases hinders development of antipruritic treatments. Previous studies implicated lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) as a potential mediator of cholestatic pruritus. METHODS: ...
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Journal ArticleNeurosci Bull · February 2018
Nociception is an important physiological process that detects harmful signals and results in pain perception. In this review, we discuss important experimental evidence involving some TRP ion channels as molecular sensors of chemical, thermal, and mechani ...
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Journal ArticleJ Invest Dermatol · April 2017
Mascarenhas et al. report that TRPV4 expression is upregulated in mast cells in response to the proteolytic cathelicidin fragment LL37 in a murine rosacea model and that TRPV4 loss of function attenuates mast cell degranulation. These findings render TRPV4 ...
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Journal ArticlePain · December 2014
Detection of external irritants by head nociceptor neurons has deep evolutionary roots. Irritant-induced aversive behavior is a popular pain model in laboratory animals. It is used widely in the formalin model, where formaldehyde is injected into the roden ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · August 20, 2013
At our body surface, the epidermis absorbs UV radiation. UV overexposure leads to sunburn with tissue injury and pain. To understand how, we focus on TRPV4, a nonselective cation channel highly expressed in epithelial skin cells and known to function in se ...
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Journal ArticlePain · August 2013
Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJD) is known for its mastication-associated pain. TMJD is medically relevant because of its prevalence, severity, chronicity, the therapy-refractoriness of its pain, and its largely elusive pathogenesis. Against this bac ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Cell Science · August 1, 2007
Centaurin α1 is an Arf GTPase-activating protein (GAP) that is highly expressed in the nervous system. In the current study, we show that endogenous centaurin α1 protein is localized in the synaptosome fraction, with peak expression in early postna ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of Neuroscience · November 1, 2006
Theataxiamutation (axJ) is a recessive neurological mutation that results in reduced growth, ataxia, and hindlimb muscle wasting in mice. TheaxJ
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