Abstract:
:Chronic pain is one of the most ubiquitous diseases in the world, but treatment is difficult with conventional methods, due to undesirable side effects of treatments and unknown mechanisms of pathological pain states. The endogenous peptide, dynorphin A has long been established as a target for the treatment of pain. Interestingly, this unique peptide has both inhibitory (opioid in nature) and excitatory activities (nonopioid) in the CNS. Both of these effects have been found to play a role in pain and much work has been done to develop therapeutics to enhance the inhibitory effects. Here we will review the dynorphin A compounds that have been designed for the modulation of pain and will discuss where the field stands today.
journal_name
Future Med Chemjournal_title
Future medicinal chemistryauthors
Hall SM,Lee YS,Hruby VJdoi
10.4155/fmc.15.164subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-01-01 00:00:00pages
165-77issue
2eissn
1756-8919issn
1756-8927journal_volume
8pub_type
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