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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Neurosci. 2015 Aug;18(8):1059–1060. doi: 10.1038/nn.4057

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Pain mechanisms differ in male and female mice. Nerve injury activates microglial cells in the spinal cord of male and female mice, but microglial inhibitors only block allodynia in males. P2RX4 is upregulated in males only. Female mice have about twice as many T cells as males. Testosterone increases PPARα and decreases PPARγ gene expression in T cells. Compounds that activate PPARα inhibit mechanical pain hypersensitivity (allodynia) in males whereas those that activate PPARγ inhibit allodynia in females.