Glucocorticoid-mediated enhancement of glutamatergic transmission may outweigh anti-inflammatory effects under conditions of neuropathic pain.

At the clinical level comorbidity between chronic pain and dysfunctional hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is well established. We aimed to identify causal relationships in a model of neuropathic pain (chronic constriction injury, CCI) by studying the effects of glucocorticoid receptor agoni...

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Main Authors: Glenn-Marie Le Coz, Fernand Anton, Ulrike Hanesch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3950185?pdf=render