The field of neurotrauma and epilepsy research has increasingly highlighted the pivotal influence of ion channels in the transition from traumatic brain ...

The National Institute of Health estimates that 100 million Americans, or around a third of the US population, live with a chronic pain condition. While the economic burden, more than US$500 billion ...

Researchers at NYU College of Dentistry’s Pain Research Center have developed a gene therapy that treats chronic pain by indirectly regulating a specific sodium ion channel, according to a new study ...

Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Nature Communications how calcium ions can block sodium ion channels located in cell membranes. Structural analysis and computer simulations made it ...

Researchers have identified another potential gene therapy for treating chronic pain, this time by indirectly targeting a key sodium ion channel. In a study published July 27 in Proceedings of the ...

Researchers at the Pain Research Center in New York University’s College of Dentistry recently developed a gene therapy that treats chronic pain, their results being published in the Proceedings of ...

For patients who have inflammatory bowel syndrome (IBS), the condition is literally a pain in the gut. Chronic—or long-term—abdominal pain is common, and there are currently no effective treatment ...