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Papers: 27 Aug 2022 - 2 Sep 2022


Pharmacology/Drug Development


2022


J Pain Res


15

Dexmedetomidine Alleviates Neuropathic Pain via the TRPC6-p38 MAPK Pathway in the Dorsal Root Ganglia of Rats.

Authors

Xu S, Yi Y, Wang Y, Wang P, Zhao Y, Feng W
J Pain Res. 2022; 15:2437-2448.
PMID: 36016537.

Abstract

Neuropathic pain is a chronic intractable disease characterized by allodynia and hyperalgesia. Effective treatments are unavailable because of the complicated mechanisms of neuropathic pain. Transient receptor potential canonical 6 (TRPC6) is a nonselective calcium (Ca)-channel protein related to hyperalgesia. Dexmedetomidine (Dex) is an alpha-2 (α2) adrenoreceptor agonist that mediates intracellular Ca levels to alleviate pain. However, the relationship between TRPC6 and Dex is currently unclear. We speculated that the α2 receptor agonist would be closely linked to the TRPC6 channel. We aimed to investigate whether Dex relieves neuropathic pain by the TRPC6 pathway in the dorsal root ganglia (DRG).