Pharmacotherapy for Pain in a Family With Inherited Erythromelalgia Guided by Genomic Analysis and Functional Profiling
Author(s) -
Paul Geha,
Yang Yang,
Mark Estación,
Betsy R. Schulman,
Hajime Tokuno,
A. Vania Apkarian,
Sulayman D. DibHajj,
Stephen G. Waxman
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jama neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.298
H-Index - 231
eISSN - 2168-6157
pISSN - 2168-6149
DOI - 10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.0389
Subject(s) - carbamazepine , neuropathic pain , erythromelalgia , medicine , functional magnetic resonance imaging , chronic pain , placebo , sodium channel blocker , dorsal root ganglion , anesthesia , epilepsy , neuroscience , sodium channel , psychology , physical therapy , pathology , chemistry , dorsum , psychiatry , anatomy , sodium , alternative medicine , organic chemistry
There is a need for more effective pharmacotherapy for chronic pain, including pain in inherited erythromelalgia (IEM) in which gain-of-function mutations of sodium channel NaV1.7 make dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons hyperexcitable.
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