{"id":202112,"date":"2024-12-21T16:33:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T22:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/new-pain-pathway-discovery-could-revolutionize-chronic-pain-treatment"},"modified":"2024-12-21T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T22:33:28","slug":"new-pain-pathway-discovery-could-revolutionize-chronic-pain-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/new-pain-pathway-discovery-could-revolutionize-chronic-pain-treatment","title":{"rendered":"New Pain Pathway Discovery Could Revolutionize Chronic Pain Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-pain-pathway-discovery-could-revolutionize-chronic-pain-treatment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cellular research indicates that neuropilin-1 plays a crucial role in pain signaling, presenting a potential pathway for developing or repurposing treatments to manage chronic pain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the NYU Pain Research Center have identified a novel receptor for nerve growth factor (NGF) that plays a critical role in pain signaling, despite being unable to signal independently. These findings, published in the <em>Journal of Clinical Investigation<\/em>, could pave the way for new treatments for arthritis, inflammatory pain, and cancer pain\u2014addressing the limitations of previous therapies that failed in clinical trials due to side effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNerve growth factor is unusual because it\u2019s one of the few patient-validated targets for pain,\u201d said Nigel Bunnett, professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Pathobiology at NYU College of Dentistry and the study\u2019s senior author. \u201cWe wanted to think of a way of circumventing side effects in an effort to find safer, non-opioid therapies for arthritis and other forms of chronic pain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cellular research indicates that neuropilin-1 plays a crucial role in pain signaling, presenting a potential pathway for developing or repurposing treatments to manage chronic pain. Researchers at the NYU Pain Research Center have identified a novel receptor for nerve growth factor (NGF) that plays a critical role in pain signaling, despite being unable to signal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}