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The present volume covers all aspects of pain research, starting with a history of pain and moving through invertebrate model systems and the human genetics of pain and functional imaging. Chapters include the role of ion channels, the opioid system, the immune and sympathetic systems, as well as the mechanisms that transform acute to chronic pain. Migraine and the interplay between sleep and pain are discussed. New technology in the form of transgenic animals, chemogenetics, optogenetics, and proteomic analyses are also covered.

Produktbeschreibung
The present volume covers all aspects of pain research, starting with a history of pain and moving through invertebrate model systems and the human genetics of pain and functional imaging. Chapters include the role of ion channels, the opioid system, the immune and sympathetic systems, as well as the mechanisms that transform acute to chronic pain. Migraine and the interplay between sleep and pain are discussed. New technology in the form of transgenic animals, chemogenetics, optogenetics, and proteomic analyses are also covered.
Autorenporträt
John Wood completed a PhD at Warwick University and trained as a virologist with Luc Montagnier in Paris. After 12 years in industry, he began his career in pain research at University College London. He focused on genetic approaches to pain mechanisms, identifying transcripts uniquely expressed by sensory neurons, including sodium channels involved in the transmission of nociceptive information that eventually cause a sensation of pain. In 2009 he won the Grand Prix Scientifique of the French Academy and became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He founded a start-up biotech company Ionix Pharmaceuticals to develop new analgesic drugs. More recently he has exploited mouse and human genetics to identify and validate new genes involved in pain pathways. He continues to explore the mechanisms involved in pain pathways and the development of new therapeutic strategies to treat chronic pain.