Unravelling mechanisms and novel therapeutic targets for peripheral neuropathy and neuropathic pain

周围神经病和神经性疼痛的揭示机制和新治疗靶点

基本信息

批准号：
10063580
负责人：
CLIFFORD J WOOLF
金额：
$ 132.75万
依托单位：
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-12-15 至 2025-11-30
项目状态：
未结题

项目摘要

Damage to or loss of the peripheral axons of primary sensory neurons is associated with two clinical syndromes: peripheral neuropathic pain and peripheral neuropathy. Treatment for neuropathic pain is typically ineffective or associated with side effects, and there is no treatment for peripheral neuropathy. To remedy this, it is essential that the mechanisms responsible for both are understood and targets identified that could be amenable to development of novel therapeutics. My goal is to dissect out at an individual neuron level the transcriptional and functional changes that occur over time in response to physical axonal injury, ion channel mutations and exposure to neurotoxic cancer chemotherapeutic agents, and explore the extent to which hyperexcitability and axon degeneration are linked. This will involve combinations of several different approaches: correlating single cell profiles and disease related functional changes, identifying disease susceptibility in patient stem derived neurons, high content phenotypic screens, population imaging in intact animals, genetic editing, and interrogation at high temporal and spatial resolution of behavioral surrogates of pain and sensory loss. The project will focus on neuropathic pain due to physical disruption of peripheral sensory axons, small fiber neuropathies due to voltage-gated sodium channel mutations and chemotherapy- induced peripheral neuropathy, and will examine if these syndromes are distinct or part of a spectrum of sensory neuron pathologies with overlapping risk factors and mechanisms.

初级感觉神经元周围轴突的损伤或丧失与两种临床综合征相关：周围神经性疼痛和周围神经病。神经性疼痛的治疗通常无效或伴有副作用，并且周围神经病没有治疗方法。为了解决这个问题，必须了解造成这两种情况的机制并确定可以开发新疗法的靶点。我的目标是在单个神经元水平上剖析随着时间的推移，由于物理轴突损伤、离子通道突变和接触神经毒性癌症化疗药物而发生的转录和功能变化，并探索过度兴奋和轴突变性之间的关联程度。这将涉及几种不同方法的组合：关联单细胞概况和疾病相关的功能变化、识别患者干源性神经元的疾病易感性、高内涵表型筛选、完整动物的群体成像、基因编辑以及高时间和空间分辨率的询问疼痛和感觉丧失的行为替代物。该项目将重点关注因周围感觉轴突物理破坏引起的神经性疼痛、因电压门控钠通道突变引起的小纤维神经病和化疗引起的周围神经病，并将检查这些综合征是否是独特的或属于一系列感觉神经元的一部分具有重叠风险因素和机制的病理。