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PKCδ-targeted intervention relieves chronic pain in a murine sickle cell disease model.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Aug 2016
He Ying, Wilkie Diana J, Nazari Jonathan, Wang Rui, Messing Robert O, DeSimone Joseph, Molokie Robert E, Wang Zaijie Jim
Abstract excerpt
Pain is a life-long symptom in sickle cell disease (SCD) and a predictor of disease progression and mortality, but little is known about its molecular mechanisms. Here, we characterized pain in a targeted knockin mouse model of SCD (TOW mouse) that exclusively expresses human alleles encoding normal α- and sickle β-globin. TOW mice exhibited ongoing spontaneous pain behavior and increased sensitivity to evoked...
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