Project context and the main objectives Chronic pain (CP) is a major unmet medical need and more effective safe drugs are badly needed. Among the most common forms of CP are: i) neuropathic pain (NP) , associated with nerve injury in the peripheral or central nervous system; and ii) osteoarthritis (OA), a progressive degeneration of
January 16-17 – 2017 Pisa Venue: Sala Azzurra, Palazzo della Carovana Scuola Normale Superiore Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7 DRAFT AGENDA Monday January 16th, 2017 PRESENTATION OF THE WORK PACKAGES BY WP LEADERS AND RELEVANT PARTICIPANTS 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM WP1 Understanding the mechanism of NGF system regulation of NP and OA WP Leader AU Other
The poster on “Behavioural and immunohistochemical characterisation of TrkA knock-in mice in the monoiodoacetate model of osteoarthritis” presented by the PAINCAGE partners Joao Sousa-Valente and Marzia Malcangio from the King’s College London and Laura Calvo and Juan Carlos Arevalo from the Universidad de Salamanca, won the first prize at the 13th IASP Research symposium:”Bridging the gaps between pain research
Experimenter sex can affect apparent baseline responses in behavioral testing: A recent publication, Robert E Sorge, Loren J Martin, Kelsey A Isbester, Susana G Sotocinal, Sarah Rosen, Alexander H Tuttle, Olfactory exposure to males, including men, causes stress and related analgesia in rodents, Nature Methods 11, 629–632 (2014), has revealed that exposure of mice and
At page 73 of the Platinum magazine on the “Research and Innovation” Section, an article about the PAINCAGE project illustrated by the Project Coordinator, prof. Antonino Cattaneo from SNS
A pilot action to fund open access peer-reviewed publications from finalized FP7 projects has been launched. This initiative is implemented by the project OpenAIRE2020. The Action is addressed to FP7 project partners who are planning to publish peer-reviewed articles in Open Access journals after the end of the project, who might be able to use the funds made available