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ArticleNature communications2025

A neural circuit for sex-dependent conditioned pain hypersensitivity in mice.

Mingjun Zhang, Ziyun Ni, Jun Ma, An Liu, Ying Liu, Qianqian Lou, Wan-Ying Dong, Zhi Zhang, Juan Li, Peng Cao

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Mingjun Zhang *Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
Ziyun Ni *Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
Jun Ma *Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
An Liu *Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230022, China.
Ying LiuDepartment of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
Qianqian LouDepartment of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
Wan-Ying DongDepartment of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
Zhi ZhangDepartment of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China. zhizhang@ustc.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4205-3181
Juan LiDepartment of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China. huamuzi1999@hotmail.com.
Peng CaoDepartment of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China. pengcao@ustc.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-6712-429X

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32025017National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32121002National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32400824
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The neural mechanisms underlying sex-specific pain, in which males and females exhibit distinct responses to pain, remain poorly understood. Here we show that in a mouse model of male-specific pain hypersensitivity response to pain conditioning environments (contextual pain hypersensitivity model), elevated free-testosterone leads to hyperactivity of glutamatergic neurons in the medial preoptic area (Glu

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HyperalgesiaPainAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalFemaleGABAergic NeuronsMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeuronsPeriaqueductal GrayPreoptic AreaReceptors, AndrogenSex CharacteristicsSignal TransductionTestosteroneReceptors, AndrogenTestosteroneTestosterone Propionate

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PMID40240334
PMCPMC12003881

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