Identifying non-opioid strategies to manage oral cancer pain

确定非阿片类药物策略来控制口腔癌疼痛

• 批准号: 10617001
• 负责人: Christopher Ryan Donnelly
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10617001
• 关键词: Absence of pain sensation; Adaptor Signaling Protein; Adjuvanticity; Advanced Development; Agonist; Analgesics; Anatomy; Antigen-Presenting Cells; Award; Behavioral; Bone Marrow; Cells; Chronic; Complex; Constipation; DNA; Disease; Dose; Double-Stranded RNA; Formulation; G-Protein-Coupled Receptors; Gene Activation; Genomics; Goals; Head and Neck Cancer; Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma; Head and neck structure; Human; IRF3 gene; Immunization; Immunosuppression; Immunotherapy; Implant; Inflammasome; Infrastructure; Interferon Type I; Interferon-beta; Interferons; Interleukin-6; Intrathecal Injections; KRAS2 gene; Knowledge; Lead; Location; Malignant Neoplasms; Measures; Modeling; Morphine; Mus; Mutation; Myoclonus; Nausea; Nociception; Nociceptors; Oncogenes; Oncogenic; Opioid; Oral cavity; Orofacial Pain; Pain; Pain management; Parents; Pathway interactions; Patient-Focused Outcomes; Patients; Pattern recognition receptor; Persistent pain; Pharmacology; Poly I-C; Potassium; Progression-Free Survivals; Quality of life; Receptor Activation; Recurrence; Refractory; Regulation; Reproducibility; Resistance; Resistance development; Resolution; Rest; Sedation procedure; Seminal; Series; Signal Transduction; Smoking; Specificity; Stimulator of Interferon Genes; Surveys; Symptoms; TBK1 gene; TLR2 gene; TLR3 gene; TLR4 gene; TP53 gene; Testing; Tongue; Tumor Burden; Tumor-infiltrating immune cells; Unresectable; Xerostomia; addiction; anti-PD-L1; anti-tumor immune response; base; behavioral study; cancer pain; chemotherapy; cytotoxic CD8 T cells; debilitating pain; deprivation; head and neck cancer patient; immune checkpoint blockade; immunogenicity; implantation; improved; in vivo; irradiation; macrophage; malignant mouth neoplasm; malignant oropharynx neoplasm; morphine tolerance; mu opioid receptors; neoplastic cell; non-opioid analgesic; novel; pain model; pain relief; programs; public health relevance; reduce symptoms; response; reward circuitry; side effect; single cell technology; tumor; tumor microenvironment

PROJECT SUMMARY An almost universal symptom of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNC) is cancer-related pain. Oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancers are even more painful than the rest of the head and neck anatomic sites. HNC-associated pain frequently develops resistance to morphine and few strategies are available for effective pain management after they develop resistance. In addition, the inevitable morphine dose escalation leads to constipation, nausea, sedation, dry mouth, and myoclonus, which substantially decrease the patient’s quality of life. Recent studies have also shown that morphine has undesirable immunosuppressive features. Through the support of the parent R01 award, we have found that type-I interferon signatures underpin the immunogenicity of HNC and made seminal contributions to the understanding of oncogenic suppression of type-I interferons by promoting the rapid turnover of an adaptor protein, stimulator of interferon genes (STING). In addition to the potential of STING agonists in reprograming the antigen-presenting cells to cross prime CD8+ cytotoxic T- lymphocytes more effectively, we recently uncovered an unexpected yet powerful function of STING agonists in promoting analgesia. Hosts that are deficient in the STING-type-I interferon pathway show significantly elevated nociceptor excitability. We have found that common driver oncogenes for HNC initiation suppress STING and lead to type-I interferon deprivation in the tumor microenvironment. In this supplement proposal, we will provide transformative evidence to leverage type-I interferons for the management of HNC-associated, morphine-resistant pain. To achieve this goal, we have generated novel and rigorous HNC models with high fidelity resemblance to human HNC mutational features. We will integrate comprehensive modeling, behavior studies, and single-cell technologies to identify non-opioid agents for HNC pain management.

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