A novel technique for prolonged silencing of visceral pain without opiates

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1127140

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

There has been substantial interest in the community for pain relief without opiates. This project demonstrates a new strategy to suppress pain at the source for prolonged periods, by suppressing activity in the sensory nerve endings that detect pain, not by acting in central pathways like opiates. To do this, we use a harmless virus to shut down a vital sodium channel for pain perception. These experiments use techniques that were recently developed in our lab and cant be performed elsewhere.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 01-01-2020

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $637,383.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sensory Systems

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

colonic motility | enteric nervous system | sensory nerves | sensory neurons | visceral afferents

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