Sentences with phrase «class of analgesics»

Since the mid-2000s, the voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.7 has emerged as a promising target for a new class of analgesics.

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The study focused on various classes of drugs used to treat pain (analgesics) and insomnia (hypnotics), as well as drugs to treat anxiety and depression.

The scientists discovered that a class of mechanoreceptors in the skin that detect painful mechanical stimuli are part of a feedback circuit in which excitatory neurons that produce the hormone somatostatin are inhibited by neurons that synthesize dynorphin (a natural analgesic molecule that produces effects similar to opiates).

While new classes of safer analgesics may be on their way («Build a Better Painkiller,» Winter 2017), clinicians need other options now, and many appear to be turning to gabapentinoids, including Neurontin (gabapentin) and Lyrica (pregabalin).