Project information
Multidisciplinary approach to modulate neuroimmune crosstalk associated with pathological pain after chronic spinal cord injury

Information

This project doesn't include Faculty of Science. It includes Faculty of Medicine. Official project website can be found on muni.cz.
Project Identification
254/C/2017
Project Period
3/2018 - 12/2021
Investor / Pogramme / Project type
Ostatní - foreign
MU Faculty or unit
Faculty of Medicine
Cooperating Organization
Universitat de Girona

Background/main objective: Up to 60% of subjects affected by spinal cord injury (SCI) develop pathological pain. Given the lack of efficient treatment, SCI-pain becomes chronic significantly decreasing the quality of life (QoL). Several chemokines have been involved in the sensitization of spinal cord after SCI, and may also exert nociceptive-related roles at supraspinal structures. The present project hypothesizes that blocking spinal and supraspinal chemokines would be a promising therapeutic strategy to alleviate SCI-pain. To this end, it is aimed to study (1) the chemokines involvement in cell-signalling crosstalk associated with SCI-pain in spinal and supraspinal structures, (2) the modulation of these chemokines and SCI-pain, by means of (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) treatment during acute and chronic SCI-phases, and (3) the spectral fingerprints of blood, spinal and supraspinal structures of SCI-mice with and without treatment in order to identify new therapeutic targets related to chronic SCI-pain.

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