Article
Rare NaV1.7 variants associated with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
Pain - 1 Mar 2018
Blesneac Iulia, Themistocleous Andreas C, Fratter Carl, Conrad Linus J, Ramirez Juan D, Cox James J, Tesfaye Solomon, Shillo Pallai R, Rice Andrew S C, Tucker Stephen J, Bennett David L H
Abstract excerpt
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a common disabling complication of diabetes. Almost half of the patients with DPN develop neuropathic pain (NeuP) for which current analgesic treatments are inadequate. Understanding the role of genetic variability in the development of painful DPN is needed for improved understanding of pain pathogenesis for better patient stratification in clinical trials and to target...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Cohort Studies
- Diabetic Neuropathies
- Female
- Genetic Association Studies
- Genetic Variation
- HEK293 Cells
- Humans
- Male
- Membrane Potentials
