Vanilloid Receptor TRPV1 in Drug Discovery: Targeting Pain and Other Pathological Disorders

Foreword.

Contributors.

PART I INTRODUCTION TO THE TRP CHANNELS.

1 TRP Channels and Human Diseases (Bernd Nilius and Rudi Vennekens).

2 Role of TRP Channels in Pain: An Overview (Arpad Szallasi).

3 Biochemical Pharmacology of TRPV1: Molecular Integrator of Pain Signals (Carol S. Surowy, Philip R. Kym, and Regina M. Reilly).

4 TRPV1 Genetics (Ruslan Dorfman, Hubert Tsui, Michael W. Salter, and H.-Michael Dosch).

PART II ROLE FOR TRPV1 IN PAIN STATES.

5 TRPV1 and Inflammatory Pain (Anindya Bhattacharya, Sonya G. Lehto, and Narender R. Gavva).

6 Role of TRPV1 Receptors in Osteoarthritic Pain (Shailen K. Joshi and Prisca Honore).

7 TRPV1 and Bone Cancer Pain (Juan Miguel Jimenez-Andrade and Patrick Mantyh).

8 TRPV1 in Visceral Pain and Other Visceral Disorders (António Avelino and Francisco Cruz).

9 TRPV1 Receptors and Migraine (Philip R. Holland and Peter J. Goadsby).

10 TRPV1 in Neuropathic Pain and Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Enza Palazzo, Katarzyna Starowicz, Sabatino Maione, and Vincenzo Di Marzo).

PART III TRPV1 ANTAGONISTS AND AGONISTS AS NOVEL ANALGESIC DRUGS.

11 Aryl-Urea Class and Related TRPV1 Antagonists (Arthur Gomtsyan).

12 2-Pyridinylpiperazine Carboxamide Class and Related TRPV1 Antagonists (Natalie A. Hawryluk and Nicholas I. Carruthers).

13 TRPV1 Agonist Approaches for Pain Management (Keith R. Bley).

PART IV ROLE FOR TRPV1 IN OTHER PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES BESIDES PAIN TRANSMISSION.

14 The TRPV1 Channel in Normal Thermoregulation: What Have We Learned from Experiments Using Different Tools? (Andras Garami, Maria C. Almeida, Tatiane B. Nucci, Tamara Hew-Butler, Renato N. Soriano, Eszter Pakai, Kazuhiro Nakamura, Shaun F. Morrison, and Andrej A. Romanovsky).

15 The Role of TRPV1 in Respiratory Diseases (Serena Materazzi, Alain Tchoimou, Romina Nassini, Marcello Trevisani, and Pierangelo Geppetti).

16 The Role of TRPV1 in Diabetes (Hubert Tsui, Ruslan Dorfman, Michael W. Salter, and H.-Michael Dosch).

Afterword.

Index.