Project information
ncRNAPain - Non-coding RNAs in neurogenic and neuropathic pain mechanisms and their application for risk assessment, patient stratification and personalised pain medicine
(ncRNAPain)
- Project Identification
- 602133
- Project Period
- 10/2013 - 9/2017
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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European Union
- 7th Specific RTD Programme
- Cooperation
- MU Faculty or unit
- Central European Institute of Technology
- Project Website
- http://www.ncrna-pain.eu/
- Keywords
- Chronic pain, Neuropathic pain, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, CRPS, Diabetic neuropathy, Painful neuropathy, Neuroimmune communication, Mouse pain model Pain pathophysiology Pain pathways Pain mechanisms
- Cooperating Organization
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University of Bordeaux
Universität Würzburg
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Neuro-immune alterations in the peripheral and central nervous system play a role in the pathophysiology of chronic pain, and non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) regulate both immune and neuronal processes. Therefore, ncRNAPain proposes that ncRNAs are critically important master switches for chronic pain.
ncRNAPain represents a multidisciplinary consortium of clinical partners, molecular and systems-level neuroscientists, bioinformatics and ncRNA experts. In order to gain knowledge on the mechanisms of chronic pain, ncRNAPain will investigate ncRNAs specifically in neurogenic and neuropathic pain, including headache.
ncRNAPain will provide novel understanding of ncRNA regulation of processes modulating nociception and endogenous analgesia and of the importance of ncRNAs in circuitries and cognitive, emotional and behavioural components of pain. ncRNAPain will reveal insights into the concerted function of ncRNAs in the control of macromolecular complexes in neurons, glia and immune cells and signals used for neuroimmune communication in the pain pathway. Based on these findings, ncRNAPain will identify and validate specific ncRNAs as new druggable molecular targets for pain prevention and relief. ncRNAPain will identify pain predisposing ncRNA expression patterns and polymorphisms in ncRNAS and/or their binding sites as biomarkers for pain and inter-individual variations in the response to painful stimuli and analgesic drugs. ncRNA-based diagnostic tools will be developed and provided to enable better patient stratification, improved mechanism-based treatment and targeted prevention strategies for high risk individuals.
ncRNAPain will provide novel understanding of the induction and maintenance of chronic pain and is committed to translate pre-clinical and clinical results and developments into clinical applications for the benefit of the patients, to improve the patients’ quality of life and reduce the societal burden of chronic pain across Europe.
Publications
Total number of publications: 3
2022
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Risk factors for depression and anxiety in painful and painless diabetic polyneuropathy: A multicentre observational cross-sectional study
European Journal of Pain, year: 2022, volume: 26, edition: 2, DOI
2019
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Sensory profiles and immune-related expression patterns of patients with and without neuropathic pain after peripheral nerve lesion
Pain, year: 2019, volume: 160, edition: 10, DOI
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The serum protease network-one key to understand complex regional pain syndrome pathophysiology
Pain : the journal of the international association for the study of pain., year: 2019, volume: 160, edition: 6, DOI