Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
J Clin Invest. 2010 Nov;120(11):3742-4. doi: 10.1172/JCI45178. Epub 2010 Nov 1.
To paraphrase Cole Porter's famous 1926 song, "What is this thing called pain? This funny thing called pain, just who can solve its mystery?" Pain, like love, is all consuming: when you have it, not much else matters, and there is nothing you can do about it. Unlike love, however, we are actually beginning to tease apart the mystery of pain. The substantial progress made over the last decade in revealing the genes, molecules, cells, and circuits that determine the sensation of pain offers new opportunities to manage it, as revealed in this Review series by some of the foremost experts in the field.
用科尔·波特(Cole Porter)1926 年著名歌曲中的话来说,“这叫做疼痛的东西是什么?这种叫做疼痛的有趣东西,谁能解开它的奥秘?”疼痛就像爱情一样,是一种全神贯注的体验:当你有了它,其他的事情都不重要了,而且你对此无能为力。然而,与爱情不同的是,我们实际上已经开始逐渐揭开疼痛之谜。在过去十年中,揭示决定疼痛感觉的基因、分子、细胞和回路的实质性进展为我们提供了新的机会来管理疼痛,正如该领域一些权威专家在本综述系列中所揭示的那样。