<p>Nerve Growth Factor Signaling and Its Contribution to Pain</p>
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- Metaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow)
- Consensus categories
- none
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- Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
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- Candidate signal: Not applicableConsensus signal: none
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- Candidate signal: ReviewConsensus signal: Review
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- 0.959
- Threshold uncertainty score
- 1.000
- Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated·codex-gemma-dda1882f352a
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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- 0.244 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
- Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline· verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it
Abstract
Nerve growth factor (NGF) is a neurotrophic protein essential for the growth, differentiation, and survival of sympathetic and sensory afferent neurons during development. A substantial body of evidence, based on both animal and human studies, demonstrates that NGF plays a pivotal role in modulation of nociception in adulthood. This has spurred development of a variety of novel analgesics that target the NGF signaling pathway. Here, we present a narrative review designed to summarize how NGF receptor activation and downstream signaling alters nociception through direct sensitization of nociceptors at the site of injury and changes in gene expression in the dorsal root ganglion that collectively increase nociceptive signaling from the periphery to the central nervous system. This review illustrates that NGF has a well-known and multifunctional role in nociceptive processing, although the precise signaling pathways downstream of NGF receptor activation that mediate nociception are complex and not completely understood. Additionally, much of the existing knowledge derives from studies performed in animal models and may not accurately represent the human condition. However, available data establish a role for NGF in the modulation of nociception through effects on the release of inflammatory mediators, nociceptive ion channel/receptor activity, nociceptive gene expression, and local neuronal sprouting. The role of NGF in nociception and the generation and/or maintenance of chronic pain has led to it becoming a novel and attractive target of pain therapeutics for the treatment of chronic pain conditions.
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The record
- Venue
- Journal of Pain Research
- Topic
- Nerve injury and regeneration
- Field
- Neuroscience
- Canadian institutions
- University of British Columbia, Okanagan CampusUniversity of British Columbia
- Funders
- PfizerEli Lilly and Company
- Keywords
- NociceptionNerve growth factorNociceptorMedicineNeuroscienceDorsal root ganglionTropomyosin receptor kinase ANeurotrophinChronic painSensitizationSignal transductionSensory systemNeurotrophic factorsReceptorCell biologyInternal medicineBiology
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
- yes