PMID- 25744676 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150921 LR - 20150306 IS - 1878-0814 (Electronic) IS - 1877-1173 (Linking) VI - 131 DP - 2015 TI - Role of extracellular damage-associated molecular pattern molecules (DAMPs) as mediators of persistent pain. PG - 251-79 LID - S1877-1173(14)00029-5 [pii] LID - 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2014.11.014 [doi] AB - Damage-associated molecular pattern molecules (DAMPs) are endogenous molecules that are constitutively expressed and released upon tissue damage, resulting in activation of the immune system. In the absence of injury or infection, DAMPs play important intracellular roles. However, once released subsequent to cell damage or cell stress, DAMPs promote activation of innate immune cells and recruitment and activation of antigen-presenting cells engaged in host defense and tissue repair. This process involves pattern recognition receptors, such as the Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE). Several of the TLRs and RAGE have been implicated to play key roles not only in the detection of injury but also in pain signaling. Pain-like behavior is reduced in TLR2- and TLR4-deficient mice, and after injection of TLR2-, TLR4-, and RAGE antagonists in experimental models of nerve injury, arthritis, and bone cancer pain. This suggests that the pathological processes in these models are associated with release of endogenous TLR and RAGE ligands, and further that DAMPs play an important role in persistent pain. There is now a rapidly growing list of DAMPs in the literature and here we give an overview of DAMPs that have been associated with nociceptive signaling. CI - (c) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Kato, Jungo AU - Kato J AD - Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. FAU - Svensson, Camilla I AU - Svensson CI AD - Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: camilla.svensson@ki.se. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20150130 PL - Netherlands TA - Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci JT - Progress in molecular biology and translational science JID - 101498165 RN - 0 (MicroRNAs) RN - 0 (Proteins) RN - 0 (Purines) RN - 0 (Receptors, Pattern Recognition) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Extracellular Space/*metabolism MH - Humans MH - MicroRNAs/metabolism MH - Pain/*metabolism MH - Proteins/metabolism MH - Purines/metabolism MH - Receptors, Pattern Recognition/*metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - DAMP OT - HMGB1 OT - Heat-shock proteins OT - Pain OT - S100B OT - microRNA EDAT- 2015/03/07 06:00 MHDA- 2015/09/22 06:00 CRDT- 2015/03/07 06:00 PHST- 2015/03/07 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/03/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/09/22 06:00 [medline] AID - S1877-1173(14)00029-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2014.11.014 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci. 2015;131:251-79. doi: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2014.11.014. Epub 2015 Jan 30.