Pain

Pain

1. Pain related diseases

   • Chronic pain
     • Mechanisms
       • Glial cells
       • Channels
       • Receptors
       • Genetics
       • central sensitization
       • peripheral sensitization
         • signalling pathways
     • Nociceptor
     • Neuropathic
       • mechanisms
       • causes
       • peripheral neuropathic pain
   • inflammatory
     • central sensitization
   • Musculoskeletal pain

2. molecular mechanisms

   • Channels
     • TRPV
     • Na
     • Ca
   • Central monoamines

3. General

   • pathways
     • ascending
     • descending
   • Nociceptors
   • Pain transduction
   • Genetics

4. Pain processing

   • Spinal cord
     • central sensitization
   • Higher centres
     • Descending control of pain
     • Pain matrix

5. Treatments

   • Approches to treating pain
     • Drug development
       • Translation
   • New targets
     • signalling transduction pathways
       • MAPK
     • Genes
     • Channels/ receptors
     • Monoamines
   • Current treatments
   • Failed treatments

6. Techniques

   • PAIN TECHNIQUES
   • Animal models
     • transgenic
   • Brain imaging
   • Molecular
     • PCR
     • Genetic manipulation
     • microarrays
   • Human models