Bookeditors Bai-Chuang Shyu and Makoto Tominaga.
Summary: This book summarizes the latest advances in pain research. All the chapters were contributed by speakers from Asian Pain Symposium (APS) on Acute and Chronic Pain, which was held in Taipei in 2017. Founded in Kyoto, Japan in 2000, the APS serves as a platform for scientists to present recent findings in pain research and discuss research orientation in this field. APS 2017 focused on novel strategies for pain treatment. Written by experts from various disciplines, from molecular to functional, and from basic to clinic studies, this book is composed of 18 review articles on the physiology and pathology of pain in these research fields. Specific topics include circuitry, neurotransmitter, physiology, behavior, neuropathology, pharmacology, and the treatments for neuropathic pain disorders. The book is a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students in pain medicine and neuroscience.
Contents:
Molecular mechanisms of the sense of touch: an overview of mechanical transduction and transmission in merkel discs of whisker hair follicles and some clinical perspectives / Jianguo G. Gu
Trp channels in nociception and pathological pain / Chen-Yu Hung, Chun-Hsiang Tan
Involvement of TRPV1-ANO1 interactions in pain-enhancing mechanisms / Y. Takayama, Makoto Tominaga
Roles of ASICs in nociception and proprioception / Cheng-Han Lee, Chih-Cheng Chen
Tackling pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis: proton-sensing receptors / Wei-Hsin Sun, Shih-Ping Dai
Advances in experimental medicine and biology: intrafascicular local anesthetic injection damages peripheral nerve-induced neuropathic pain / Kuang-Yi Tseng, Hung-Chen Wang, Lin-Li Chang, Kuang-I Cheng
Microglia in the CNS and neuropathic pain / Makoto Tsuda
Descending noradrenergic inhibition: an important mechanism of gabapentin analgesia in neuropathic pain / Ken-ichiro Hayashida, James C. Eisenach
Chronic neuropathic pain protects the heart from ischemia-reperfusion injury / Yi-Fen Cheng, Chien-Chang Chen
Knowing the neuronal mechanism of spontaneous pain to treat chronic pain in the future / Xiang-Yao Li, Jing-Hua Wang, Cheng Wu
Role of neuroinflammation in opioid tolerance: translational evidence from human-to-rodent studies / Chih-Peng Lin, Dai-Hua Lu
Neural mechanisms of offset analgesia / Jiro Kurata
Cortical ltp: a synaptic model for chronic pain / Min Zhuo
Pain-associated neural plasticity in the parabrachial to central amygdala circuit / Fusao Kato, Yae K. Sugimura, Yukari Takahashi
Electrophysiological signature of pain / Zi-Fang Zhao, You Wan
Neuroimaging studies of primary dysmenorrhea / Intan Low, Shyh-Yuh Wei, Pin-Shiuan Lee, Wei-Chi Li, Lin-Chien Lee, Jen-Chuen Hsieh [and others]
Brain reward circuit and pain / Moe Watanabe, Minoru Narita
Involvement of P₂X₇ receptors and BDNF in the pathogenesis of central poststroke pain / Yung-Hui Kuan, Hsi-Chien Shih, Bai-Chuang Shyu
Melatonin: a new-generation therapy for reducing chronic pain and improving sleep disorder-related pain / Tavleen Kaur, Bai-Chuang Shyu
Central poststroke pain, comorbidity, and associated symptoms in animal and human models / Bai-Chuang Shyu, Andrew Chih Wei Huang.