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ArticleeLife2025

Pain persists in mice lacking both Substance P and CGRPα signaling.

Donald Iain MacDonald, Monessha Jayabalan, Jonathan T Seaman, Rakshita Balaji, Alec R Nickolls, Alexander Theodore Chesler

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Article in eLife, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Donald Iain MacDonaldNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4863-1093
Monessha JayabalanNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.
Jonathan T SeamanNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.
Rakshita BalajiNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.
Alec R NickollsNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.
Alexander Theodore CheslerNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3131-0728

Funding

Studies on the molecular, cells, and circuit that underlie somatosensation and painZIAAT000028 · NCCIH · NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY & INTEGRATIVE HEALTH · PI CHESLER, ALEXANDER · 2014 to 2025
$12.0M
Branco Weiss Fellowship - Society in Science Postdoctoral FellowshipEMBO Postdoctoral FellowshipIntramural NIH HHS ZIA AT000028NCCIH NIH HHS ZIAAT000028
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The neuropeptides Substance P and CGRPα have long been thought important for pain sensation. Both peptides and their receptors are expressed at high levels in pain-responsive neurons from the periphery to the brain making them attractive therapeutic targets. However, drugs targeting these pathways individually did not relieve pain in clinical trials. Since Substance P and CGRPα are extensively co-expressed, we hypothesized that their simultaneous inhibition would be required for effective analgesia. We therefore generated

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Calcitonin Gene-Related PeptidePainSignal TransductionSubstance PAnimalsMaleMiceMice, KnockoutNeuralgiaCalca protein, mouseCalcitonin Gene-Related PeptideSubstance Pmouseneuropeptidesneurosciencepainsomatosensation

Identifiers

PMID40100256
PMCPMC11919252

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