Potential Application of Optogenetic Stimulation in the Treatment of Pain and Migraine Headache: A Perspective from Animal Studies. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Optogenetic manipulation is uniquely useful in unraveling the functional organization of neuronal circuits in the central nervous system by enabling reversible gain- or loss-of-function of discrete populations of neurons within restricted brain regions. This state-of-the-art technology can produce circuit-specific neuromodulation by overexpressing light-sensitive proteins (opsins) in particular cell types of interest. Here, we discuss the principle of optogenetic manipulation and its application in pain research using animal models, and we also discuss how to potentially use optogenetic stimulation in the treatment of migraine headache in the future.

published proceedings

  • Brain Sci

altmetric score

  • 4.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Liu, S., Tang, Y., Xing, Y., Kramer, P., Bellinger, L., & Tao, F.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • Liu, Sufang||Tang, Yuanyuan||Xing, Ying||Kramer, Phillip||Bellinger, Larry||Tao, Feng

publication date

  • January 2019

publisher