Modulation of Pathological Pain by Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor.

ABSTRACT: Chronic pain has been widely recognized as a major public health problem that impacts multiple aspects of patient quality of life. Unfortunately, chronic pain is often resistant to conventional analgesics, which are further limited by their various side effects. New therapeutic strategies and targets are needed to better serve the millions of people suffering from this devastating disease. To this end, recent clinical and preclinical studies have implicated the epidermal growth factor receptor signaling pathway in chronic pain states. EGFR is one of four members of the ErbB family of receptor tyrosine kinases that have key roles in development and the progression of many cancers. EGFR functions by activating many intracellular signaling pathways following binding of various ligands to the

SUBMITTER: Borges JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8149758 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature