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Abstract

Neuropathic pain is a refractory disease that occurs across the world and pharmacotherapy has limited efficacy and/or safety. This disease imposes a significant burden on both the somatic and mental health of patients; indeed, some patients have referred to neuropathic pain as being ‘worse than death’. The pharmacological agents that are used to treat neuropathic pain at present can produce mild effects in certain patients, and induce many adverse reactions, such as sedation, dizziness, vomiting, and peripheral oedema. Therefore, there is an urgent need to discover novel drugs that are safer and more effective. Natural compounds from medical plants have become potential sources of analgesics, and evidence has shown that glycosides alleviated neuropathic pain via regulating oxidative stress, transcriptional regulation, ion channels, membrane receptors and so on. In this review, we summarize the epidemiology of neuropathic pain and the existing therapeutic drugs used for disease prevention and treatment. We also demonstrate how glycosides exhibit an antinociceptive effect on neuropathic pain in laboratory research and describe the antinociceptive mechanisms involved to facilitate the discovery of new drugs to improve the quality of life of patients experiencing neuropathic pain.

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Title
Glycosides for Peripheral Neuropathic Pain: A Potential Medicinal Components
Author
Miao-Miao Tian 1 ; Yu-Xiang, Li 2 ; Liu, Shan 1 ; Chun-Hao, Zhu 1 ; Xiao-Bing, Lan 1 ; Du, Juan 1 ; Lin, Ma 1 ; Jia-Mei, Yang 1 ; Zheng, Ping 1 ; Jian-Qiang, Yu 3 ; Liu, Ning 3 

 Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Ningxia Medical University, 1160 Shengli Street, Yinchuan 750004, China; [email protected] (M.-M.T.); [email protected] (S.L.); [email protected] (C.-H.Z.); [email protected] (X.-B.L.); [email protected] (J.D.); [email protected] (L.M.); [email protected] (J.-M.Y.) 
 College of Nursing, Ningxia Medical University, 1160 Shengli Street, Yinchuan 750004, China; [email protected] 
 Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Ningxia Medical University, 1160 Shengli Street, Yinchuan 750004, China; [email protected] (M.-M.T.); [email protected] (S.L.); [email protected] (C.-H.Z.); [email protected] (X.-B.L.); [email protected] (J.D.); [email protected] (L.M.); [email protected] (J.-M.Y.); Ningxia Special Traditional Medicine Modern Engineering Research Center and Collaborative Innovation Center, Ningxia Medical University, 1160 Shengli Street, Yinchuan 750004, China 
First page
255
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
14203049
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2618240626
Copyright
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.