Contribution of Inflammation to Chronic Pain Triggered by Nerve Injury
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Abstract
An injury to a peripheral nerve can be a slight stretch, a compression or a severe laceration. Such damage usually leads to an acute phase response characterized by nociceptive pain, inflammation and restriction of normal function. However, in about 7%-18% of the general population, pain persists, even after the injury healing, producing a state of chronic neuropathic pain. This type of hypersensitivity is debilitating and refractory to the majority of available analgesics. It adversely affects quality of life and bears a substantial cost to society. In the last two decades, compelling evidence strongly suggested that, in addition to changes in neuronal system, pathogenesis of neuropathic pain involves the interaction between the immune system and the nervous system. Inflammatory process alters local homeostasis and impairs neuronal function. In this chapter, we primarily focus on the evidence with experimental animal models obtained from our laboratory and from literature to highlight inflammatory reaction along the pain pathway (from damaged nerve to the spinal cord), and the critical role of this reaction in the development and maintenance of neuropathic pain. We also discuss the current progress and challenges of translating the inflammation related new targets into therapeutics.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".