INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BOARD Oliver J. Dolly (Ireland) Maria Pia Abbracchio (Milan) Stephen P Hunt (UK) With the support of Bruno Amantea (Catanzaro) Shinobu Sakurada (Japan) Francesco Amato (Cosenza) Giorgio Sandrini () e President of the Italian Republic Sebastiano Andò (Cosenza) Lucio Annunziato () LOCAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Fabio Blandini (Pavia) Annagrazia Adornetto (Cosenza) Norman G. Bowery (Birmingham) Diana Amantea (Cosenza) Gianfranco Di Renzo (Naples) Laura Berliocchi (Catanzaro) Stephen P. Hunt (London) Maria Cristina Caroleo (Cosenza) NEW TRENDS IN Rosario Iannacchero (Catanzaro) Laura Rombolà (Cosenza) Shiroh Kishioka (Wakayama) Rossella Russo (Cosenza) Marcello Maggiolini (Cosenza) PAIN RESEARCH Sabatino Maione (Naples) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Giuseppe Micieli (Pavia) Michelangelo Certo (Cosenza) From Basic Research to Clinical Translation Hirokazu Mizoguchi (Sendai) Federica Cavaliere (Cosenza) Luigi A. Morrone (Cosenza) Antonella Ciociaro (Catanzaro) Hiroshi Nagase (Tokyo) Maria Maiarù (Catanzaro) Giuseppe Nappi (Pavia) Francesco Petrelli (Cosenza) Under the auspices of Lucia Negri (Rome) Damiana Scuteri (Cosenza) Giovanni Nicotera (Cosenza) Giuseppe Varano (Catanzaro) Pierluigi Nicotera (Bonn) Domenicantonio Rotiroti (Catanzaro) SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT e Italian Ministry of Health Paola Sacerdote (Milan) Laura Berliocchi Department of Tsukasa Sakurada (Fukuoka) Health Sciences, University Campus “S. Venuta” Diego Sisci (Cosenza) University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro Gianfranco Spalletta (Rome) 88100 Catanzaro Tel 39 0961 369 4109 Chizuko Watanabe (Sendai) Email: [email protected] e Italian Society e National e Italian Society e Japanese Society John N. Wood (London) of Pharmacology Institute of Health of Neuroscience of Pharmacology Akihiko Yonezawa (Sendai) EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT Luigi A. Morrone Department of Pharmacobiology, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE University of , Via Pietro Bucci, Giacinto Bagetta (Italy) 87036 Rende (Cosenza) Italy Carlo Caltagirone (Italy) Tel 39 0984 493054 Maria Tiziana Corasaniti (Italy) E mail: [email protected] PRESIDENTS Giacinto Bagetta (Cosenza) Maria Tiziana Corasaniti (Catanzaro) Shinobu Sakurada (Sendai) Cristina Tassorelli (Pavia)

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Per informazioni ed iscrizioni contattare Prof. Luigi A. Morrone [email protected] 39 0984 493054 www.gbagetta.jimdo.com Meeting Venue Panta Rei Hotel Parghelia (VV), Calabria, Italy 13th-15th September, 2012 Provider n. 72 - Via Piemonte, 12 Rende Tel. 0984.837852 www.jbprof.com A Collaborative Scienti c Initiative of Saturday, 15th September Morning session

e University of Calabria e Tohoku Pharmaceutical University e University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro 9.00 RATIONAL BASIS FOR PAIN TREATMENT Department of Pharmacobiology Department of Physiology and Anatomy Department of Health Sciences Chairpersons: Carlo Caltagirone (Rome), Pierluigi Nicotera (Bonn) 9.00 Stefania Ceruti (Milan), Nucleotide receptors in trigeminal satellite glial cells: new targets for the pharmacological control of migraine pain Headache Science Center, e IRCCS e University Consortium for Adaptive e IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation Mondino Foundation PAVIA Disorders and Headache (UCADH) CERC ROME 9.30 Santina Chiechio (Catania), Metabotropic glutamate receptors as target for chronic pain control 10.00 Tsukasa Sakurada (Fukuoka), Natural products for pain control

10.30 Co ee Break ursday, 13th September 18.00 Welcome address 11.00 ADVANCED PAIN THERAPY 18.15 Invited Opening Lecture Chairpersons: Lucia Negri (Rome), Shiroh Kishioka (Wakayama) Chairperson: Giacinto Bagetta (Cosenza) 11.00 Gianfranco Spalletta (Rome), Pain and depression Invited Speaker: Hiroshi Nagase (Tokyo), Translational Research in Itching: 11.30 Shinobu Sakurada (Sendai), Involvement of H1 receptor in pain related research and development of nalfurane hydrochloride and its application behaviors induced by nociceptin and its metabolites in the mouse spinal cord to kidney dialysis patients with intractable pruritus 12.00 Cristina Tassorelli (Pavia), Endocannabinoids and migraineous pain 12.30 Oliver J Dolly (Dublin), Targeting SNARE for migraine control Friday, 14th September 13.00 General Discussion Morning session 9.00 MECHANISMS OF PAIN TRANSMISSION 13.30 Lunch Break Chairpersons: Shinobu Sakurada (Sendai), Cristina Tassorelli (Pavia) Aernoon session 9.00 Stephen P Hunt (London), Pain mechanisms and new targets 15.00 ALCMEONE CONSORTIUM SYMPOSIUM ON PAIN* 9.30 Sabatino Maione (Naples), Transient receptors in pain transmission Chairspersons: Antonino Orlando – Rosario Iannacchero 10.00 Marzia Malcangio (London), Neuron-glia interactions in chronic pain 15.00 Antonino Orlando (Catanzaro) General Director, Health Department, 10.30 coee break Calabria Region - Introduction 11.00 CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF PAIN 15.10 Marina De Tommaso (Bari) New neurophysiopathologic evidence Chairpersons: Oliver J Dolly (Dublin), Giorgio Sandrini (Pavia) underlying chronic pain of central origin 11.00 Laura Berliocchi (Catanzaro), Autophagy in neuropathic pain 15.40 Rosario Iannacchero & Antonino Iaria (Regional Health Service, Catanzaro) 11.30 Shiroh Kishioka (Wakayama), Novel mediators of peripheral sensitization Organizational strategies for diagnostic and therapeutic protocols for 12.00 Lucia Negri (Rome), New trends in prokinetins research headache and neuropathic pain in Calabria: headache and cranial and 12.30 Paola Sacerdote (Milan), Stem cells as advanced therapy of chronic pain peripheral nerve Day Service 13.00 General Discussion 16.00 Filippo Brighina () Transcranic neuromodulation: headache and 10.30 lunch break chronic pain of central origin Aernoon session 16.20-17.00 Discussion 16.30 Free poster communications Chairspersons: Laura Berliocchi (Catanzaro), Cristina Tassorelli (Pavia) (*to be held in italian language)