Neuropathic pain is chronic pain generated by disorders of the peripheral and central nervous system, including skull base tumours. A skull base tumour can be any type of tumour that forms in the skull base, and this ...Neuropathic pain is chronic pain generated by disorders of the peripheral and central nervous system, including skull base tumours. A skull base tumour can be any type of tumour that forms in the skull base, and this includes vestibular schwannomas which arise from the sheath of the inner ear vestibulocochlear nerve(eighth cranial nerve). Growth of the tumour, surgical resection, and/or stereotactic radiotherapy may result incompression and/or irritation of the fifth cranial nerve(trigeminal nerve) resulting in facial pain and/or numbness. Non-trigeminal afferent input may contribute to the wide constellation of symptoms seen in orofacial pain patients. The purpose of this report was to develop a decision tool to guide the recognition and treatment of neuropathic pain in this specialized population. Recommendations for treatment are based on evidence presented in Canadian and international neuropathic treatment guidelines. Algorithms are included for assessment and treatment of adult patients with agents that are recognized to have analgesic efficacy within the broad context of neuropathic pain.展开更多
Alzheimer’s disease(AD)is the most common neurode-generative disease among elderly people worldwide.Several genes have been validated to be associated with AD,and calcium homeostasis modulator 1(Calhm1)is the latest ...Alzheimer’s disease(AD)is the most common neurode-generative disease among elderly people worldwide.Several genes have been validated to be associated with AD,and calcium homeostasis modulator 1(Calhm1)is the latest suspected one.To investigate the biological and pathological function of Calhm1 systematically,we generated a Calhm1 conventional knockout mouse.However,both the male and female of elderly Calhm1 knockout(KO)mice showed similar ability to their wild type littermates in spatial learning and memory retrieving.Surprisingly,we found that Calhm1 mRNA could not be detected in mouse brains at different ages,although it is expressed in the human brain tissues.We further found that CpG islands(CGIs)of both mouse and human Calhm1 were hypermethylated,whereas CGI of mouse Calhm2 was hypomethylated.In addition,transcriptional active marker H3K4Di occupied on promoters of human Calhm1 and mouse Calhm2 at a considerable level in brain tissues,while the occupancy of H3K4Di on pro-moter of mouse Calhm1 was rare.In sum,we found that mouse Calhm1 was of rare abundance in brain tissues.So it might not be suitable to utilize the knockout murine model to explore biological function of Calhm1 in the pathogenesis of AD.展开更多
文摘Neuropathic pain is chronic pain generated by disorders of the peripheral and central nervous system, including skull base tumours. A skull base tumour can be any type of tumour that forms in the skull base, and this includes vestibular schwannomas which arise from the sheath of the inner ear vestibulocochlear nerve(eighth cranial nerve). Growth of the tumour, surgical resection, and/or stereotactic radiotherapy may result incompression and/or irritation of the fifth cranial nerve(trigeminal nerve) resulting in facial pain and/or numbness. Non-trigeminal afferent input may contribute to the wide constellation of symptoms seen in orofacial pain patients. The purpose of this report was to develop a decision tool to guide the recognition and treatment of neuropathic pain in this specialized population. Recommendations for treatment are based on evidence presented in Canadian and international neuropathic treatment guidelines. Algorithms are included for assessment and treatment of adult patients with agents that are recognized to have analgesic efficacy within the broad context of neuropathic pain.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program(973 Program)(Grant No.2009CB918704)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.81125010 and 81030025).
文摘Alzheimer’s disease(AD)is the most common neurode-generative disease among elderly people worldwide.Several genes have been validated to be associated with AD,and calcium homeostasis modulator 1(Calhm1)is the latest suspected one.To investigate the biological and pathological function of Calhm1 systematically,we generated a Calhm1 conventional knockout mouse.However,both the male and female of elderly Calhm1 knockout(KO)mice showed similar ability to their wild type littermates in spatial learning and memory retrieving.Surprisingly,we found that Calhm1 mRNA could not be detected in mouse brains at different ages,although it is expressed in the human brain tissues.We further found that CpG islands(CGIs)of both mouse and human Calhm1 were hypermethylated,whereas CGI of mouse Calhm2 was hypomethylated.In addition,transcriptional active marker H3K4Di occupied on promoters of human Calhm1 and mouse Calhm2 at a considerable level in brain tissues,while the occupancy of H3K4Di on pro-moter of mouse Calhm1 was rare.In sum,we found that mouse Calhm1 was of rare abundance in brain tissues.So it might not be suitable to utilize the knockout murine model to explore biological function of Calhm1 in the pathogenesis of AD.
