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Joachim Scholz and colleagues introduce a novel tool for pain assessment (4/8/09)

Read the open-access article at PLoS Medicine

Read the accompanying editorial

Also covered by HarvardScience

Cox-2 in CNS neural cells (3/3/09)

Vardeh et al., publishes; COX-2 in CNS neural cells mediates mechanical inflammation pain hypersensitivity in mice. Makes front cover of JCI.

Inhibition of nociceptors using capsaicin and the lidocaine derivative, QX-314

Click this link to read the Nature paper by Binshtok, Bean and Woolf (2007) describing sensory specific blockade.

Watch Professor Woolf on NECN describing the study.

Watch Professor Bean and Alex Binshtok on NBC nightly news (click "watch the video" at the top of the linked page).

Listen to a Nature podcast of Clifford Woolf and Bruce Bean talking about the study and its implications in a clinical setting.

The role of BH4 in pain development

Click this link to read the Nature Medicine paper by Tegeder et al., (2006) describing GTP cyclohydrolase and tetrahydrobiopterin and their regulation in pain sensitivity and persistence.

Commentary on BH4 and GCH1 in Nature Medicine News and Views.

Review featured in Science, 27th October 2006.

Review featured in Lancet Neurology, December 2006.

BH4

Image illustrating the relationship between BH4, GCH1 and nociception.

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