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Record W4410325259 · doi:10.3390/biom15050694

Nav1.8 and Chronic Pain: From Laboratory Animals to Clinical Patients

2025· review· en· W4410325259 on OpenAlexaff
Yu‐Feng Xie

Bibliographic record

VenueBiomolecules · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicIon channel regulation and function
Canadian institutionsHospital for Sick Children
Fundersnot available
KeywordsChronic painSodium channelMedicineDorsal root ganglionNeuropathic painNAV1AnesthesiaNeuroscienceDorsumPhysical therapySodiumPsychologyAnatomy

Abstract

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gene is found to have different variants in patients suffering chronic pain or insensitivity to pain due to the gain-of-function or loss-of-function of Nav1.8 channels. In animal models of chronic pain, Nav1.8 is also verified to be involved, suggesting that Nav1.8 may be a potential target for treatment of chronic pain. Another voltage-gated sodium channel, Nav1.7, is also proposed to be a target for chronic pain, supported by clinical findings in patients and laboratory animal models; however, there is no Nav1.7-specific drug that has passed clinical trials, although they demonstrated satisfactory effects in laboratory animals. This discrepancy between clinical and preclinical studies may be related to the differences between humans and laboratory animals or due to the degeneracy in different sodium channels governing the DRG neuronal excitability, which is thought of as the underlying machinery of chronic pain and mostly studied. This review summarizes recent findings of Nav1.8 in chronic pain from clinics and laboratories and discusses the difference, which may be helpful for future investigation of Nav1.8 in chronic pain, considering the dilemma of the Nav1.7 channel in chronic pain.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.009

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.344
Teacher spread0.319 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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".

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Published2025
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