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Chronic pain remains a significant medical challenge with complex underlying mechanisms, and an urgent need for new treatments. Our research built and utilized the iPain single-cell atlas to study chronic […]

Globally, osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent joint disease and is characterized by infiltration of M1 macrophages in the synovium, anabolic-catabolic imbalance of the extracellular matrix (ECM), increased articular shear […]

Accumulating evidence indicates the involvement of TRESK potassium channels in migraine, however, effects of TRESK activation on migraine-related mechanisms remain unclear. We explored effects of TRESK channel modulation on migraine-related […]

Discectomy is the surgical standard of care to relieve low back pain caused by intervertebral disc (IVD) herniation. However, there remains annulus fibrosus (AF) defect and nucleus pulposus (NP) degeneration, […]

Metformin is classified as a biguanide and is used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. It is used worldwide and has been investigated in drug repositioning. The present study […]

Neuropathic pain is a debilitating chronic condition that remains difficult to treat. More efficacious and safer therapeutics are needed. A potential target for therapeutic intervention recently identified by our group […]

describes helplessness, rumination, and magnification of a pain experience. High pain catastrophizing is an independent risk factor for disability, pain severity, inadequate treatment response, chronicity, and opioid misuse. Interdisciplinary pain […]

Low back pain (LBP) is increasingly understood as a long-lasting condition with a variable course. Avoidance and persistence behaviour have been described to mediate pain persistence by potentially linking psychosocial […]

Electrical stimulation of spinal networks below a spinal cord injury is a promising approach to restore functions compromised by inadequate and/or inappropriate neural drive. The most translationally successful examples are […]