Current Drug Development Overview: Targeting Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels for the Treatment of Pain.
Flavia Tasmin Techera AntunesMaria Martha CamposVanice de Paula Ricardo CarvalhoClaudio Antonio da Silva JuniorLuiz Alexandre Viana MagnoAlessandra Hubner de SouzaMarcus Vinicius GomezPublished in: International journal of molecular sciences (2023)
Voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) are targeted to treat pain conditions. Since the discovery of their relation to pain processing control, they are investigated to find new strategies for better pain control. This review provides an overview of naturally based and synthetic VGCC blockers, highlighting new evidence on the development of drugs focusing on the VGCC subtypes as well as mixed targets with pre-clinical and clinical analgesic effects.