A página tem como intuito a aproximação da sociedade com a pesquisa científica. The Laboratory of Pain, Inflammation, Neuropathy. and Cancer from Universidade Estadual de Londrina has contributed to widen pain and inflammation research by being the first to demonstrate the hyperalgesic role of cytokines such as IL-15 (Verri et al., 2006 PNAS), IL-18 (Verri et al., 2004 J Pharmacol Exp Ther) and IL
-33 (Verri et al., 2008 PNAS). We were the first to demonstrate that IL-33 induces neutrophils recruitment in Rheumatoid Arthritis and its mechanisms (Verri et al., 2010 Ann Rheum Dis). More recently, we described that spinal cord oligodendrocytes-derived IL-33 contributes to neuropathic pain, highlighting a previous unrecognized role of spinal cord oligodendrocytes in pain (Zarpelon et al., 2016 Faseb J). We also showed that the nitroxyl donor, Angeli´s salt, presents analgesic effect by increasing nitroxyl levels in dorsal root ganglia neurons (Zarpelon et al., 2013 Neuropharmacol), and reduces septic arthritis-induced inflammation with analgesic and antibacterial properties (Staurengo-Ferrari et al., 2017 Free Rad Biol Med). Regarding drug-induced toxicity, we demonstrated the contribution of NFkB in diclofenac-induced renal damage (Fattori et al., 2017 Pharmacol Res). Our group also developed two novel disease models for pain study: the Ehrlich tumor-induced hyperalgesia model (Calixto-Campos et al., 2013 BioMed Res Int) and the swimming-induced delayed onset muscle soreness model (Borghi et al., 2014 Physiol Behav) also investigating its mechanisms. The investigation of novel pharmacologically active molecules from natural sources in several pain, inflammation and cancer models is also a goal of the laboratory. The molecules of interest include flavonoids (Manchope et al., 2016 Oncotarget; Pinho-Ribeiro et al., 2016 Neuropharmacol; Borghi et al., 2013 J Nat Prod), diterpenes (Mizokami et al., 2012 J Nat Prod; Possebon et al., 2014 J Nat Prod) and sesquiterpene lactones (Valerio et al., 2007 Eur J Pharmacol).