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ArticleBiomedicines2022

Future Treatment of Neuropathic Pain in Spinal Cord Injury: The Challenges of Nanomedicine, Supplements or Opportunities?

Giuseppe Forte, Valentina Giuffrida, Angelica Scuderi, Mariella Pazzaglia

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Article in Biomedicines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Giuseppe ForteDipartimento Di Psicologia, Sapienza Università Di Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5223-041X
Valentina GiuffridaBody and Action Lab, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Fondazione Santa Lucia, 00179 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9109-0934
Angelica ScuderiDipartimento Di Psicologia, Sapienza Università Di Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6364-9411
Mariella PazzagliaDipartimento Di Psicologia, Sapienza Università Di Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9196-7078
Fondazione Santa Lucia · IT

Funding

Italian Ministry of Health RF-2018-12365682
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuropathic pain (NP) is a common chronic condition that severely affects patients with spinal cord injuries (SCI). It impairs the overall quality of life and is considered difficult to treat. Currently, clinical management of NP is often limited to drug therapy, primarily with opioid analgesics that have limited therapeutic efficacy. The persistence and intractability of NP following SCI and the potential health risks associated with opioids necessitate improved treatment approaches. Nanomedicine has gained increasing attention in recent years for its potential to improve therapeutic efficacy while minimizing toxicity by providing sensitive and targeted treatments that overcome the limitations of conventional pain medications. The current perspective begins with a brief discussion of the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying NP and the current pain treatment for SCI. We discuss the most frequently used nanomaterials in pain diagnosis and treatment as well as recent and ongoing efforts to effectively treat pain by proactively mediating pain signals following SCI. Although nanomedicine is a rapidly growing field, its application to NP in SCI is still limited. Therefore, additional work is required to improve the current treatment of NP following SCI.

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nanomedicinenanotechnologyneuropathic painpainspinal cord injury

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PMID35740395
PMCPMC9219608
OpenAlexW4281710421

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