NMP-7 inhibits chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain via block of Cav3.2 T-type calcium channels and activation of CB2 receptors.
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...2 channels (Berger et al., 2014)....
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...More recently, a series of novel DHP derivatives with a condensed hexahydroquinoline 1,4-DHP ring system were identified (Bladen et al., 2014)....
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...2 blocker SNI model analgesic effect (Berger et al., 2014) Suramin and the flavonoid gossypetin USP5-Cav3....
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...2 T-type channel blocker, was shown to mediate a significant analgesic effect in the model of neuropathic pain (Berger et al. , 2014)....
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...T-type calcium channels are expressed along the primary afferent pain pathway [4-6] and these channels—in particular T-type channel subtype CaV3....
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...Painful diabetic neuropathies can be reversed by inhibiting T-type channels [14] as well as by CaV3....
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...Inhibition of T-type channels or in vivo antisense-mediated knockdown produces antinociception in these and other models of chronic pain [7-16]....
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...Additionally, both Δ(9)-THC and cannabidiol [21] or the endogenous cannabinoid anandamide and its derivatives [20-22] inhibit T-type channel activity....
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...The development of novel analgesics is paramount to the effective treatment of chronic pain, and the development of novel molecular entities targeting multiple mechanisms of pain neurobiology may be an attractive method to effectively mediate pain with lower compound doses, and reduced side effects [2]....
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