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menthol and Allodynia

menthol has been researched along with Allodynia in 27 studies

Menthol: A monoterpene cyclohexanol produced from mint oils.

Research Excerpts

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"Topical high-concentration L-menthol consistently induces cold hypersensitivity in animals and humans, thus constituting a predictable surrogate model of cold allodynia and hyperalgesia."8.90A review of topical high-concentration L-menthol as a translational model of cold allodynia and hyperalgesia. ( Andersen, HH; Arendt-Nielsen, L; Eskelund, PW; Gazerani, P; Møller, HG; Olsen, RV, 2014)
"Topical high-concentration L-menthol is the only established human experimental pain model to study mechanisms underlying cold hyperalgesia."7.81Cold and L-menthol-induced sensitization in healthy volunteers--a cold hypersensitivity analogue to the heat/capsaicin model. ( Andersen, HH; Arendt-Nielsen, L; Gazerani, P; Nikbakht, A; Poulsen, JN; Uchida, Y, 2015)
"Menthol inhibited phototoxicity-evoked APs and reduced pain behavior when applied topically to mice."5.48Menthol reduces phototoxicity pain in a mouse model of photodynamic therapy. ( Baptista-Hon, D; Bull, F; Dalgaty, F; Gallacher, M; Hales, TG; Ibbotson, SH; Wright, L, 2018)
"Menthol has previously been suggested as a model for hypersensitivity, but it has not yet been investigated if different levels of neuropathic pain may influence the effects of menthol or if topical application of menthol may act as a model for hypersensitivity in patients with phantom limb pain."5.39The effects of menthol on cold allodynia and wind-up-like pain in upper limb amputees with different levels of phantom limb pain. ( Arendt-Nielsen, L; Jensen, TS; Nikolajsen, L; Svensson, P; Vase, L, 2013)
"Both treatments resulted in cold and mechanical allodynia."5.38Effect of synthetic eel calcitonin, elcatonin, on cold and mechanical allodynia induced by oxaliplatin and paclitaxel in rats. ( Aoki, M; Ishii, K; Mori, A; Nakahara, T; Sakamoto, K, 2012)
"Cold hyperalgesia is 1 of the characteristic signs in neuropathic pain."5.37Topical high-concentration (40%) menthol-somatosensory profile of a human surrogate pain model. ( Baron, R; Binder, A; Klebe, O; Stengel, M; Wasner, G, 2011)
"Topical high-concentration L-menthol consistently induces cold hypersensitivity in animals and humans, thus constituting a predictable surrogate model of cold allodynia and hyperalgesia."4.90A review of topical high-concentration L-menthol as a translational model of cold allodynia and hyperalgesia. ( Andersen, HH; Arendt-Nielsen, L; Eskelund, PW; Gazerani, P; Møller, HG; Olsen, RV, 2014)
" Potent analgesic activity was observed in models of neuropathic pain, and the compound blocked capsaicin induced allodynia, showing dermal accumulation with little transdermal absorption."3.96Discovery of Nonpungent Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) Agonist as Strong Topical Analgesic. ( Ann, J; Blumberg, PM; Choi, K; Esch, TE; Ha, HJ; Hwang, SW; Kim, H; Kim, HS; Kim, M; Kim, YH; Lee, J; Pearce, LV; Thorat, SA; Turcios, NA, 2020)
"Topical high-concentration L-menthol is the only established human experimental pain model to study mechanisms underlying cold hyperalgesia."3.81Cold and L-menthol-induced sensitization in healthy volunteers--a cold hypersensitivity analogue to the heat/capsaicin model. ( Andersen, HH; Arendt-Nielsen, L; Gazerani, P; Nikbakht, A; Poulsen, JN; Uchida, Y, 2015)
"The cold- and menthol-sensitive receptor TRPM8 (transient receptor potential melastatin 8) has been suggested to play a role in cold allodynia, an intractable pain seen clinically."3.74TRPM8 mechanism of cold allodynia after chronic nerve injury. ( Chen, M; Gu, JG; Ling, J; Tan, W; Xing, H, 2007)
"Hyperalgesia was induced by capsaicin and cinnamaldehyde on heat pain thresholds and by menthol on cold pain thresholds (Cohen d=2."2.90TRPA1 Sensitization Produces Hyperalgesia to Heat but not to Cold Stimuli in Human Volunteers. ( Lötsch, J; Weyer-Menkhoff, I, 2019)
"The area size of mechanical hyperalgesia was not reliably reproducible."2.79Topical high-concentration menthol: reproducibility of a human surrogate pain model. ( Baron, R; Binder, A; Hüllemann, P; Mahn, F; Wasner, G, 2014)
"Menthol therefore has selective effects on noxious cold processing."2.72Psychophysical study of the effects of topical application of menthol in healthy volunteers. ( Attal, N; Bouhassira, D; Hatem, S; Willer, JC, 2006)
" Deletion or inhibition of the TRPM8 channel was found to prevent the cold hyperalgesia induced by chronic administration of morphine."1.56Chronic morphine regulates TRPM8 channels via MOR-PKCβ signaling. ( Altier, C; Basso, L; Defaye, M; Flynn, R; Hassan, A; Iftinca, M; Kwok, C; Ramachandran, R; Roland, C; Trang, T, 2020)
"Each menthol concentration was applied for 15 min and participants were asked to rate the sensation produced using a series of visual analogue scales and by selecting words from a descriptor list derived from the McGill pain questionnaire (MPQ)."1.51Development of a topical menthol stimulus to evaluate cold hyperalgesia. ( Benson, HAE; Moss, P; Wright, A, 2019)
"Menthol inhibited phototoxicity-evoked APs and reduced pain behavior when applied topically to mice."1.48Menthol reduces phototoxicity pain in a mouse model of photodynamic therapy. ( Baptista-Hon, D; Bull, F; Dalgaty, F; Gallacher, M; Hales, TG; Ibbotson, SH; Wright, L, 2018)
"Cold allodynia and significant recovery from spared-nerve injury-induced mechanical hypersensitivity are two novel phenotypes which characterize the global CB1R-/- mice."1.43Cannabinoid 1 receptor knockout mice display cold allodynia, but enhanced recovery from spared-nerve injury-induced mechanical hypersensitivity. ( Blanck, T; Norcini, M; Piskoun, B; Recio-Pinto, E; Russo, L; Sideris, A, 2016)
" AMG2850 is potent in vitro at rat TRPM8 (IC90 against icilin activation of 204 ± 28 nM), highly selective (>100-fold IC90 over TRPV1 and TRPA1 channels), and orally bioavailable (F po > 40 %)."1.42AMG2850, a potent and selective TRPM8 antagonist, is not effective in rat models of inflammatory mechanical hypersensitivity and neuropathic tactile allodynia. ( Davis, C; Gavva, NR; Kerstein, PC; Lehto, SG; Stucky, CL; Wang, J; Wang, W; Weyer, AD; Wild, KD; Youngblood, BD; Zhang, M, 2015)
"However, the role of TRPM8 in visceral hyperalgesia is poorly understood in pathological states such as inflammatory bowel disease."1.40TRPM8 has a key role in experimental colitis-induced visceral hyperalgesia in mice. ( Fujino, H; Horie, S; Hosoya, T; Matsumoto, K; Murayama, T; Nakamura, H; Tashima, K, 2014)
"Menthol was applied topically to the hind paws of naive and spinal nerve-ligated (SNL) rats."1.40Anti-hyperalgesic effects of a novel TRPM8 agonist in neuropathic rats: a comparison with topical menthol. ( Brice, NL; Dickenson, AH; Gonçalves, L; Hendrick, A; Leveridge, M; Mack, SR; Patel, R, 2014)
"When menthol was administered to ION-CCI rats, total contact time was further reduced and total contact number increased at the cooling temperatures."1.39Operant behavioral responses to orofacial cold stimuli in rats with chronic constrictive trigeminal nerve injury: effects of menthol and capsazepine. ( Gu, JG; Ling, JX; Xu, GY; Zuo, X, 2013)
"Menthol has previously been suggested as a model for hypersensitivity, but it has not yet been investigated if different levels of neuropathic pain may influence the effects of menthol or if topical application of menthol may act as a model for hypersensitivity in patients with phantom limb pain."1.39The effects of menthol on cold allodynia and wind-up-like pain in upper limb amputees with different levels of phantom limb pain. ( Arendt-Nielsen, L; Jensen, TS; Nikolajsen, L; Svensson, P; Vase, L, 2013)
"Both treatments resulted in cold and mechanical allodynia."1.38Effect of synthetic eel calcitonin, elcatonin, on cold and mechanical allodynia induced by oxaliplatin and paclitaxel in rats. ( Aoki, M; Ishii, K; Mori, A; Nakahara, T; Sakamoto, K, 2012)
"Cold hyperalgesia is 1 of the characteristic signs in neuropathic pain."1.37Topical high-concentration (40%) menthol-somatosensory profile of a human surrogate pain model. ( Baron, R; Binder, A; Klebe, O; Stengel, M; Wasner, G, 2011)

Research

Studies (27)

TimeframeStudies, this research(%)All Research%
pre-19900 (0.00)18.7374
1990's0 (0.00)18.2507
2000's6 (22.22)29.6817
2010's18 (66.67)24.3611
2020's3 (11.11)2.80

Authors

AuthorsStudies
Ann, J1
Kim, HS1
Thorat, SA1
Kim, H1
Ha, HJ1
Choi, K1
Kim, YH1
Kim, M1
Hwang, SW1
Pearce, LV1
Esch, TE1
Turcios, NA1
Blumberg, PM1
Lee, J1
Journigan, VB1
Feng, Z1
Rahman, S1
Wang, Y1
Amin, ARMR1
Heffner, CE1
Bachtel, N1
Wang, S1
Gonzalez-Rodriguez, S1
Fernández-Carvajal, A1
Fernández-Ballester, G1
Hilton, JK1
Van Horn, WD1
Ferrer-Montiel, A1
Xie, XQ1
Rahman, T1
Iftinca, M1
Basso, L1
Flynn, R1
Kwok, C1
Roland, C1
Hassan, A1
Defaye, M1
Ramachandran, R1
Trang, T1
Altier, C1
Wright, L1
Baptista-Hon, D1
Bull, F1
Dalgaty, F1
Gallacher, M1
Ibbotson, SH1
Hales, TG1
Weyer-Menkhoff, I1
Lötsch, J3
Wright, A1
Benson, HAE1
Moss, P1
Zuo, X1
Ling, JX1
Xu, GY1
Gu, JG3
Andersen, HH2
Olsen, RV1
Møller, HG1
Eskelund, PW1
Gazerani, P2
Arendt-Nielsen, L3
Mahn, F1
Hüllemann, P1
Wasner, G2
Baron, R2
Binder, A2
Hosoya, T1
Matsumoto, K1
Tashima, K1
Nakamura, H1
Fujino, H1
Murayama, T1
Horie, S1
Patel, R1
Gonçalves, L1
Leveridge, M1
Mack, SR1
Hendrick, A1
Brice, NL1
Dickenson, AH1
Naganawa, T1
Baad-Hansen, L1
Ando, T1
Svensson, P2
Lehto, SG1
Weyer, AD1
Zhang, M1
Youngblood, BD1
Wang, J1
Wang, W1
Kerstein, PC1
Davis, C1
Wild, KD1
Stucky, CL1
Gavva, NR1
Poulsen, JN1
Uchida, Y1
Nikbakht, A1
Alsharari, SD1
King, JR1
Nordman, JC1
Muldoon, PP1
Jackson, A1
Zhu, AZ1
Tyndale, RF1
Kabbani, N1
Damaj, MI1
Sideris, A1
Piskoun, B1
Russo, L1
Norcini, M1
Blanck, T1
Recio-Pinto, E1
Flühr, K1
Neddermeyer, TJ1
Altis, K1
Schmidtko, A1
Angioni, C1
Kuczka, K1
Schmidt, H1
Geisslinger, G1
Tegeder, I1
Gentry, C1
Stoakley, N1
Andersson, DA1
Bevan, S1
Stengel, M1
Klebe, O1
Zhao, M1
Isami, K1
Nakamura, S1
Shirakawa, H1
Nakagawa, T1
Kaneko, S1
Aoki, M1
Mori, A1
Nakahara, T1
Sakamoto, K1
Ishii, K1
Vase, L1
Nikolajsen, L1
Jensen, TS1
Namer, B1
Seifert, F1
Handwerker, HO1
Maihöfner, C1
Xing, H2
Ling, J2
Chen, M2
Hatem, S1
Attal, N1
Willer, JC1
Bouhassira, D1
Tan, W1

Clinical Trials (1)

Trial Overview

TrialPhaseEnrollmentStudy TypeStart DateStatus
High-concentration L-menthol as a Counter-irritant to TRPA1-induced Neurogenic Inflammation, Thermal and Mechanical Hyperalgesia Caused by Trans-cinnamaldehyde[NCT02653703]14 participants (Actual)Interventional2014-10-31Completed
[information is prepared from clinicaltrials.gov, extracted Sep-2024]

Reviews

1 review available for menthol and Allodynia

ArticleYear
A review of topical high-concentration L-menthol as a translational model of cold allodynia and hyperalgesia.
    European journal of pain (London, England), 2014, Volume: 18, Issue:3

    Topics: Animals; Humans; Hyperalgesia; Menthol; Neuralgia; Pain Measurement; Pain Threshold; Translational R

2014

Trials

6 trials available for menthol and Allodynia

ArticleYear
TRPA1 Sensitization Produces Hyperalgesia to Heat but not to Cold Stimuli in Human Volunteers.
    The Clinical journal of pain, 2019, Volume: 35, Issue:4

    Topics: Acrolein; Adult; Capsaicin; Cold Temperature; Cross-Over Studies; Female; Healthy Volunteers; Hot Te

2019
Topical high-concentration menthol: reproducibility of a human surrogate pain model.
    European journal of pain (London, England), 2014, Volume: 18, Issue:9

    Topics: Adult; Antipruritics; Female; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Hyperalgesia; Male; Menthol; Middle Aged;

2014
Capsaicin or menthol sensitization induces quantitative but no qualitative changes to thermal and mechanical pain thresholds.
    The Clinical journal of pain, 2009, Volume: 25, Issue:2

    Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Antipruritics; Capsaicin; Female; Humans; Hyperalgesia; Male; Menthol; Middle Age

2009
Analgesic efficacy of tramadol, pregabalin and ibuprofen in menthol-evoked cold hyperalgesia.
    Pain, 2009, Dec-15, Volume: 147, Issue:1-3

    Topics: Adult; Analgesics; Analysis of Variance; Area Under Curve; Case-Control Studies; Cold Temperature; C

2009
TRPA1 and TRPM8 activation in humans: effects of cinnamaldehyde and menthol.
    Neuroreport, 2005, Jun-21, Volume: 16, Issue:9

    Topics: Acrolein; Adult; Axons; Cross-Over Studies; Double-Blind Method; Female; Humans; Hyperalgesia; Ion C

2005
Psychophysical study of the effects of topical application of menthol in healthy volunteers.
    Pain, 2006, Volume: 122, Issue:1-2

    Topics: Administration, Topical; Adult; Cold Temperature; Cross-Over Studies; Double-Blind Method; Female; H

2006

Other Studies

20 other studies available for menthol and Allodynia

ArticleYear
Discovery of Nonpungent Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) Agonist as Strong Topical Analgesic.
    Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2020, 01-09, Volume: 63, Issue:1

    Topics: Analgesics; Animals; Capsaicin; CHO Cells; Cricetulus; Drug Discovery; Hyperalgesia; Mice, Inbred IC

2020
Structure-Based Design of Novel Biphenyl Amide Antagonists of Human Transient Receptor Potential Cation Channel Subfamily M Member 8 Channels with Potential Implications in the Treatment of Sensory Neuropathies.
    ACS chemical neuroscience, 2020, 02-05, Volume: 11, Issue:3

    Topics: Amides; Biphenyl Compounds; Calcium; HEK293 Cells; Humans; Hyperalgesia; Menthol; Patch-Clamp Techni

2020
Chronic morphine regulates TRPM8 channels via MOR-PKCβ signaling.
    Molecular brain, 2020, 04-14, Volume: 13, Issue:1

    Topics: Animals; Cells, Cultured; Enzyme Activation; Ganglia, Spinal; HEK293 Cells; Humans; Hyperalgesia; Ma

2020
Menthol reduces phototoxicity pain in a mouse model of photodynamic therapy.
    Pain, 2018, Volume: 159, Issue:2

    Topics: Acrylamides; Animals; Animals, Newborn; Antipruritics; Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic; Derm

2018
Development of a topical menthol stimulus to evaluate cold hyperalgesia.
    Musculoskeletal science & practice, 2019, Volume: 41

    Topics: Adult; Aged; Female; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Hyperalgesia; Male; Menthol; Middle Aged; Pain Meas

2019
Operant behavioral responses to orofacial cold stimuli in rats with chronic constrictive trigeminal nerve injury: effects of menthol and capsazepine.
    Molecular pain, 2013, Jun-14, Volume: 9

    Topics: Animals; Behavior, Animal; Capsaicin; Cold Temperature; Conditioning, Operant; Facial Nerve; Facial

2013
TRPM8 has a key role in experimental colitis-induced visceral hyperalgesia in mice.
    Neurogastroenterology and motility, 2014, Volume: 26, Issue:8

    Topics: Anilides; Animals; Colitis; Colon; Dextran Sulfate; Disease Models, Animal; Hyperalgesia; Male; Ment

2014
Anti-hyperalgesic effects of a novel TRPM8 agonist in neuropathic rats: a comparison with topical menthol.
    Pain, 2014, Volume: 155, Issue:10

    Topics: Analgesics; Animals; Cold Temperature; Disease Models, Animal; Hyperalgesia; Male; Menthol; Morpholi

2014
Influence of topical application of capsaicin, menthol and local anesthetics on intraoral somatosensory sensitivity in healthy subjects: temporal and spatial aspects.
    Experimental brain research, 2015, Volume: 233, Issue:4

    Topics: Administration, Topical; Adult; Analysis of Variance; Anesthetics, Local; Antipruritics; Capsaicin;

2015
AMG2850, a potent and selective TRPM8 antagonist, is not effective in rat models of inflammatory mechanical hypersensitivity and neuropathic tactile allodynia.
    Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology, 2015, Volume: 388, Issue:4

    Topics: Action Potentials; Animals; Behavior, Animal; Blood Pressure; Brain; Calcium; CHO Cells; Cold Temper

2015
Cold and L-menthol-induced sensitization in healthy volunteers--a cold hypersensitivity analogue to the heat/capsaicin model.
    Pain, 2015, Volume: 156, Issue:5

    Topics: Administration, Topical; Adult; Capsaicin; Cold Temperature; Female; Hand; Hot Temperature; Humans;

2015
Effects of Menthol on Nicotine Pharmacokinetic, Pharmacology and Dependence in Mice.
    PloS one, 2015, Volume: 10, Issue:9

    Topics: Animals; Body Temperature; Brain; Female; Hyperalgesia; Hypothermia, Induced; Male; Maze Learning; M

2015
Cannabinoid 1 receptor knockout mice display cold allodynia, but enhanced recovery from spared-nerve injury-induced mechanical hypersensitivity.
    Molecular pain, 2016, Volume: 12

    Topics: Animals; Cold Temperature; Ganglia, Spinal; Hyperalgesia; Male; Menthol; Mice, Knockout; Motor Activ

2016
The roles of iPLA2, TRPM8 and TRPA1 in chemically induced cold hypersensitivity.
    Molecular pain, 2010, Jan-21, Volume: 6

    Topics: Animals; Antipruritics; Cold Temperature; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Foot; Group VI Phospholi

2010
Topical high-concentration (40%) menthol-somatosensory profile of a human surrogate pain model.
    The journal of pain, 2011, Volume: 12, Issue:7

    Topics: Administration, Topical; Adult; Antipruritics; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Hand; Humans; Hyper

2011
Acute cold hypersensitivity characteristically induced by oxaliplatin is caused by the enhanced responsiveness of TRPA1 in mice.
    Molecular pain, 2012, Jul-28, Volume: 8

    Topics: Animals; Behavior, Animal; Calcium Channels; Capsaicin; Cisplatin; Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syn

2012
Effect of synthetic eel calcitonin, elcatonin, on cold and mechanical allodynia induced by oxaliplatin and paclitaxel in rats.
    European journal of pharmacology, 2012, Dec-05, Volume: 696, Issue:1-3

    Topics: Analgesics; Animals; Antineoplastic Agents; Behavior, Animal; Calcitonin; Cold Temperature; Hyperalg

2012
The effects of menthol on cold allodynia and wind-up-like pain in upper limb amputees with different levels of phantom limb pain.
    Neuroscience letters, 2013, Feb-08, Volume: 534

    Topics: Administration, Topical; Adult; Aged; Cold Temperature; Female; Humans; Hyperalgesia; Male; Menthol;

2013
Chemical and cold sensitivity of two distinct populations of TRPM8-expressing somatosensory neurons.
    Journal of neurophysiology, 2006, Volume: 95, Issue:2

    Topics: Animals; Capsaicin; Cells, Cultured; Cold Temperature; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Hyperalgesi

2006
TRPM8 mechanism of cold allodynia after chronic nerve injury.
    The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2007, Dec-12, Volume: 27, Issue:50

    Topics: Animals; Capsaicin; Cells, Cultured; Chronic Disease; Cold Temperature; Disease Models, Animal; Fema

2007