Moutal A

ORCID: 0000-0003-4268-1206 · 3 papers in corpus
2025
A prolactin-targeting antibody to prevent stress-induced peripheral nociceptor sensitization and female postoperative pain.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ·doi:10.1073/pnas.2501229122

Scheduled surgeries elicit stress in many patients. Levels of preoperative stress, anxiety, and female gender are known risk factors for increased and prolonged postoperative pain. The mechanisms by which psychological stress increases post…

2024
Nociceptors are functionally male or female: from mouse to monkey to man.
Brain : a journal of neurology ·doi:10.1093/brain/awae179

The prevalence of many pain conditions often differs between sexes. In addition to such quantitative distinctions, sexual dimorphism may also be qualitative reflecting differences in mechanisms that promote pain in men and women. A major fa…

2023
Neuropilin-1 is essential for vascular endothelial growth factor A-mediated increase of sensory neuron activity and development of pain-like behaviors.
Pain ·doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002970

AbstractNeuropilin-1 (NRP-1) is a transmembrane glycoprotein that binds numerous ligands including vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA). Binding of this ligand to NRP-1 and the co-receptor, the tyrosine kinase receptor VEGFR2, elici…