Neuroimmune Interactions in Pain

lt;p>Dr. Ru-Rong Ji, is a Professor of Anesthesiology, and the Director of the Center for Translational Pain Medicine at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Dr. Jianguo Cheng is Professor of Anesthesiology and the Director of Cleveland Clinic Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine Fellowship Program. He works in the departments of Pain Management and Neurosciences at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is Past President of the American Academy of Pain Medicine.

Jasmine Ji is a Neuroscience student at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA.

Introduction to Acute, Chronic, and Episodic Pain.- Inflammation and Pain.- Animal Models of Pain and Anti-inflammatory Treatments.- Inflammatory Mediators, Nociceptors, and Their Interactions in Pain.- Immune and Glial Cells in Pain and Their Interactions with Nociceptive Neurons.- Sex Differences in Neuroimmune Interactions and Pain.- Neuroimmune Interactions in Itch.- Toll-like Receptors in Pain and Itch.- Immunotherapy and Pain.- Cell Therapy and Regenerative Pain Medicine - Preclinical Studies.- Cell-based Therapies in Pain Management.- Platelet-Rich Plasma and Autologous Conditioned Serum: Non-Cellular Biologic Therapies for Neuroimmune Modulation and the Treatment of Arthritis Pain.- Exercise and Diet in the Control of Inflammation and Pain.- Mechanism-Based Pain Therapies.- Neuromodulation in Pain Management.- What Patients Need to Know about Pain Therapy?.