Review Article

Development of Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy for Chronic Pain

Table 1

Analgesic effect of HSV vectors encoding therapeutic genes in pain treatment.

Pain modelsGene productInoculationReferences

Acute painPreproenkephalinTo the skin of dorsal hindpawWilson et al. [16]
Inflammatory painPreproenkephalin AInfected on scarified hind footpadsBraz et al. [17]
Neuropathic painProenkephalin AUnilateral peripheral inoculationMeunier et al. [21]
Cutaneous hyperalgesiaPreproenkephalinSubcutaneous inoculationYeomans et al. [9]
Bladder hyperactivity and painPreproenkephalinInjected into the bladder wallYokoyama et al. [20]
Inflammatory painEndomorphin-2Subcutaneous inoculationHao et al. [18]
Neuropathic painEndomorphin-2Subcutaneous inoculationWolfe et al. [19]
Neuropathic painIL-4Subcutaneous inoculationHao et al. [23]
Neuropathic painsTNFRsSubcutaneous inoculationPeng et al. [24]
Neuropathic painGAD67Subcutaneous inoculationHao et al. [25]
Neuropathic painGAD67Subcutaneous inoculationLiu et al. [26]
Inflammatory painNav1.7 antisenseSubcutaneous inoculationYeomans et al. [27]
Cancer painProenkephalinSubcutaneous inoculationGoss et al. [14]