| Part I Overview of Immune Cells and Glial
Cells |
| 1. |
Immune Cells in Peripheral Nerve (Linda S. Sorkin and Maria
Schäfers) |
| 2. |
Roles of Astrocytes and Microglia in Pain Memory (Leif Hertz and
Elisabeth Hansson) |
| 3. |
Intracellular Signaling Cascades in Glia (Etty N. Benveniste) |
| Part II Immune-Pain Interactions:
Peripheral Tissue and Nerves |
| 4. |
Pain Facilitation by Proinflammatory Cytokine Actions
at Peripheral Nerve Terminals (Thiago M. Cunha, Waldiceu A. Verri, Jr.,
Stephen Poole, Carlos A. Parada, Fernando Q. Cunha, and Sergio H.
Ferreira) |
| 5. |
Proinflammatory Cytokines and Neuropathic Pain:
Retrograde Signaling and Dorsal Root Ganglion Changes after
Peripheral Nerve Injury (Maria Schäfers, Claudia Sommer, and Linda
S. Sorkin) |
| 6. |
Analgesic Effects of Immune-Cell-Derived Opioids
(Halina Machelska and Christoph Stein) |
| Part III Immune/Glial-Pain Interactions:
Dorsal Root Ganglia |
| 7. |
Chemokines and Their Receptors in the Nervous
System: A Link to Neuropathic Pain (Fletcher A. White, Patrick E.
Monahan, and Robert H. LaMotte) |
| 8. |
Electrophysiological Evidence of Enhanced Nociceptive
Transmission in Response to Dorsal Root Exposure to Nucleus
Pulposus (Jason M. Cuellar and E. Carstens ) |
| 9. |
Peripheral Nerve Injury and Protection by
Erythropoietin: Dorsal Root Ganglion Signaling Cascades and Chronic Pain
(W. Marie Campana) |
| 10. |
Inflammation of Dorsal Root Ganglia: Satellite
Cell Activation and ImmuneCell Recruitment after Nerve Injury
(Elspeth M. McLachlan and Ping Hu) |
| Part IV Glial Regulation of Neuronal
Functions Relevant to Pain |
| 11. |
Cytokine Regulation of Ion Channels in the Pain Pathway
(Maria Elena P. Morales and Robert W. Gereau IV) |
| 12. |
AMPAR Synaptic and Surface Localization Is
Altered by Glial-Derived Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha: Relevance to
Hyperalgesia and Central Sensitization (Eric C. Beattie and
David Stellwagen) |
| 13. |
Astrocyte Signaling Systems in Physiology and Pathology
(Biljana Djukic, Todd Fiacco and Ken D. McCarthy) |
| Part V Glial-Pain Interactions: Spinal
Cord and Brain |
| 14. |
Steroid Hormone Regulation of Astrocyte Function:
Implications for Central Nervous System Sensitization (Michael L.
LaCroix-Fralish and Joyce A. DeLeo ) |
| 15. |
The Role of ERK/MAPK in Spinal Glia for Neuropathic
Pain: Signal Transduction in Spinal Microglia and Astrocytes after
Nerve Injury (Ru-Rong Ji)
|
| 16. |
The Role of ATP and Microglia in Enhanced Pain States
(Simon Beggs, Tuan Trang, and Michael W. Salter) |
| 17. |
The Role of p38 in Microglial Regulation of Spinal Pain
Processing (Camilla I. Svensson, Tony L. Yaksh, and Linda S.
Sorkin) |
| 18. |
Glially Driven Enhancement of Pain and Its
Control by Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines (Erin D. Milligan, Annemarie
Ledeboer, Evan M. Sloane, Steven M. Maier, David A. Busha, and
Linda R. Watkins) |
| Part VI Glial-Pain Interactions: Morphine
Tolerance |
| 19. |
Modulating Glial Activation in Opioid Tolerance and
Neuropathic Pain: A Role for Glutamate Transporters (Vivianne L.
Tawfik and Joyce A. DeLeo) |
| 20. |
Proinflammatory Cytokines Modulate Neuropathic
Pain, Opioid Analgesia, and Opioid Tolerance (Yehuda Shavit, Gilly
Wolf, Ian N. Johnston, R. Frederick Westbrook, Linda R. Watkins,
and Raz Yirmiya) |
| Part VII Immune and Glial
Interactions with Pain: Implications for Clinical Pain
Control |
| 21. |
New Perspectives on Sciatica (Jaro Karppinen) |
| 22. |
Immunomodulatory Therapies for Complex Regional Pain
Syndrome: Thalidomide and Beyond (Donald C. Manning) |
| 23. |
Cytokine Profiles in Patients with Chronic Widespread
Pain (Nurcan Üçeyler and Claudia Sommer) |
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Index |