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Mendes ÁGR, de Sousa GGV, França MDS, de Carvalho CAM, Batista EDJO, Passos ADCF, Oliveira KRHM, Herculano AM, de Moraes SAS. Astrocyte reactivity in spinal cord and functional impairment after tendon injury in rats. Heliyon 2021; 7:e06845. [PMID: 33981899 PMCID: PMC8082259 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2020] [Revised: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Astrocyte reactivity in the spinal cord may occur after peripheral neural damage. However, there is no data to report such reactivity after Achilles tendon injury. We investigate whether changes occur in the spinal cord, mechanical sensitivity and gait in two phases of repair after Achilles tendon injury. Wistar rats were divided into groups: control (CTRL, without rupture), 2 days post-injury (RUP2) and 21 days post-injury (RUP21). Functional and mechanical sensitivity tests were performed at 2 and 21 days post-injury (dpi). The spinal cords were processed, cryosectioned and activated astrocytes were immunostained by GFAP at 21 dpi. Astrocyte reactivity was observed in the L5 segment of the spinal cord with predominance in the white matter regions and decrease in the mechanical threshold of the ipsilateral paw only in RUP2. However, there was gait impairment in both RUP2 and RUP21. We conclude that during the acute phase of Achilles tendon repairment, there was astrocyte reactivity in the spinal cord and impairment of mechanical sensitivity and gait, whereas in the chronic phase only gait remains compromised.
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Galaj E, Newman AH, Xi ZX. Dopamine D3 receptor-based medication development for the treatment of opioid use disorder: Rationale, progress, and challenges. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2020; 114:38-52. [PMID: 32376243 PMCID: PMC7252042 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.04.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Opioid abuse and related overdose deaths continue to rise in the United States, contributing to the current national opioid crisis. Although several opioid-based pharmacotherapies are available (e.g., methadone, buprenorphine, naloxone), they show limited effectiveness in long-term relapse prevention. In response to the opioid crisis, the National Institute on Drug Abuse proposed a list of pharmacological targets of highest priority for medication development for the treatment of opioid use disorders (OUD). Among these are antagonists of dopamine D3 receptors (D3R). In this review, we first review recent progress in research of the dopamine hypothesis of opioid reward and abuse and then describe the rationale and recent development of D3R ligands for the treatment of OUD. Herein, an emphasis is placed on the effectiveness of newly developed D3R antagonists in the animal models of OUD. These new drug candidates may also potentiate the analgesic effects of clinically used opioids, making them attractive as adjunctive medications for pain management and treatment of OUD.
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- Ewa Galaj
- Molecular Targets and Medication Discovery Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Molecular Targets and Medication Discovery Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Molecular Targets and Medication Discovery Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, United States.
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Forster LA, Jansen LAR, Rubaharan M, Murphy AZ, Baro DJ. Alterations in SUMOylation of the hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channel 2 during persistent inflammation. Eur J Pain 2020; 24:1517-1536. [PMID: 32446289 PMCID: PMC7496191 DOI: 10.1002/ejp.1606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2020] [Revised: 04/28/2020] [Accepted: 05/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Background Unilateral injection of Complete Freund's Adjuvant (CFA) into the intra‐plantar surface of the rodent hindpaw elicits chronic inflammation and hyperalgesia in the ipsilateral hindlimb. Mechanisms contributing to this hyperalgesia may act over multiple time courses and can include changes in ion channel expression and post‐translational SUMOylation. Hyperpolarization‐activated, cyclic nucleotide‐gated (HCN) channels mediate the hyperpolarization‐activated current, Ih. An HCN2‐mediated increase in C‐nociceptor Ih contributes to mechanical hyperalgesia in the CFA model of inflammatory pain. Changes in HCN2 post‐translational SUMOylation and protein expression have not been systematically documented for a given dorsal root ganglia (DRG) throughout the time course of inflammation. Methods This study examined HCN2 protein expression and post‐translational SUMOylation in a rat model of CFA‐induced hindpaw inflammation. L5 DRG cryosections were used in immunohistochemistry experiments and proximity ligation assays to investigate HCN2 expression and SUMOylation, respectively, on days 1 and 3 post‐CFA. Results Unilateral CFA injection elicited a significant bilateral increase in HCN2 staining intensity in small diameter DRG neurons on day 1 post‐CFA, and a significant bilateral increase in the number of small neurons expressing HCN2 but not staining intensity on day 3 post‐CFA. HCN2 channels were hyper‐SUMOylated in small diameter neurons of ipsilateral relative to contralateral DRG on days 1 and 3 post‐CFA. Conclusions Unilateral CFA injection elicits unilateral mechanical hyperalgesia, a bilateral increase in HCN2 expression and a unilateral increase in post‐translational SUMOylation. This suggests that enhanced HCN2 expression in L5 DRG is not sufficient for mechanical hyperalgesia in the early stages of inflammation and that hyper‐SUMOylation of HCN2 channels may also be necessary. Significance Nociceptor HCN2 channels mediate an increase in Ih that is necessary for mechanical hyperalgesia in a CFA model of chronic pain, but the mechanisms producing the increase in nociceptor Ih have not been resolved. The data presented here suggest that the increase in Ih during the early stages of inflammation may be mediated by an increase in HCN2 protein expression and post‐translational SUMOylation.
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- Lori A Forster
- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.,Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.,Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Costa AR, Carvalho P, Flik G, Wilson SP, Reguenga C, Martins I, Tavares I. Neuropathic Pain Induced Alterations in the Opioidergic Modulation of a Descending Pain Facilitatory Area of the Brain. Front Cell Neurosci 2019; 13:287. [PMID: 31316354 PMCID: PMC6610065 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2019.00287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2019] [Accepted: 06/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Opioids play a major role at descending pain modulation but the effects of neuropathic pain on the brain opioidergic system remain understudied. Since descending facilitation is enhanced during neuropathic pain, we studied the opioidergic modulation of the dorsal reticular nucleus (DRt), a medullary pain facilitatory area, in the spared nerve injury (SNI) model of neuropathic pain. We first performed a series of behavioral experiments in naïve-animals to establish the role of μ-opioid receptor (MOR) in the effects of endogenous and exogenous opioids at the DRt. Specifically, we showed that lentiviral-mediated MOR-knockdown at the DRt increased sensitivity to thermal and mechanical stimuli while the MOR agonist DAMGO induced the opposite effects. Additionally, we showed that MOR-knockdown and the pharmacological blockade of MOR by CTAP at the DRt decreased and inhibited, respectively, the analgesic effects of systemic morphine. Then, we performed in vivo microdialysis to measure enkephalin peptides in the DRt and evaluated MOR expression in the DRt at mRNA, protein and phosphorylated form levels by quantitative real-time PCR and immunohistochemistry, respectively. SNI-animals, compared to sham control, showed higher levels of enkephalin peptides, lower MOR-labeled cells without alterations in MOR mRNA levels, and higher phosphorylated MOR-labeled cells. Finally, we performed behavioral studies in SNI animals to determine the potency of systemic morphine and the effects of the pharmacologic and genetic manipulation of MOR at the DRt. We showed a reduced potency of the antiallodynic effects of systemic morphine in SNI-animals compared to the antinociceptive effects in sham animals. Increasing MOR-cells at the DRt of SNI-animals by lentiviral-mediated MOR-overexpression produced no effects on mechanical allodynia. DAMGO induced anti-allodynia only after MOR-overexpression. These results show that MOR inhibits DRt pain facilitatory actions and that this action contributes to the analgesic effects of systemic opioids. We further show that the inhibitory function of MOR is impaired during neuropathic pain. This is likely due to desensitization and degradation of MOR which are adaptations of the receptor that can be triggered by MOR phosphorylation. Skipping counter-regulatory pathways involved in MOR adaptations might restore the opioidergic inhibition at pain facilitatory areas.
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- Ana Rita Costa
- Departamento de Biomedicina - Unidade de Biologia Experimental, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.,i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.,IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Departamento de Biomedicina - Unidade de Biologia Experimental, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.,i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.,IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Charles River Laboratories Den Bosch B.V., 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, United States
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- Departamento de Biomedicina - Unidade de Biologia Experimental, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.,i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.,IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Departamento de Biomedicina - Unidade de Biologia Experimental, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.,i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.,IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Departamento de Biomedicina - Unidade de Biologia Experimental, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.,i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.,IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Blond S, Mertens P, David R, Roulaud M, Rigoard P. From "mechanical" to "neuropathic" back pain concept in FBSS patients. A systematic review based on factors leading to the chronification of pain (part C). Neurochirurgie 2015; 61 Suppl 1:S45-56. [PMID: 25596973 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuchi.2014.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2014] [Revised: 11/21/2014] [Accepted: 11/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Beyond initial lesions, any form of spinal (re)operation can cause direct potential aggression to the nervous system by contact with neural tissue or by imprinting a morphological change on the neural tissue. The potential consequences of nerve root injury affect both peripheral and axial dermatomal distribution. The hypothesis of a possible neuropathic aspect associated with the back pain component of failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) therefore appears to be reasonable. Its pathophysiology remains unclear due to the permanent interplay between nociceptive and neuropathic pain components, resulting in the coexistence of physiological and pathological pain at the same anatomical site. This paper is designed to extensively review the fundamental mechanisms leading to chronification of pain and to suggest considering the emerging concept of "neuropathic back pain". METHODS Literature searches included an exhaustive review of 643 references and 74 book chapters updated by searching the major electronic databases from 1930 to August 2013. RESULTS Inflammatory and neuropathic back pain could be distinguished from pure nociceptive pain as a result of an increased activity and responsiveness of sensitized receptors at the peripheral nervous system and also as a consequence of increased afferent inflow to the central nervous system, moving to a new, more excitable "wind-up" state. This can be clinically translated to an amplified response to a moderate/intense stimulus (primary hyperalgesia) or an aversive sensation provoked by the activation of low-threshold mechanoreceptors through non-noxious stimuli, which defines allodynia. Activated non-neuronal cells including microglia have been found to be cellular intermediaries in mechanical allodynia. Major changes in the spinal cord are the loss of inhibitory mechanisms, resulting in an increased activity of interneurons or projection neurons and a structural reorganization of the central projection pattern. This abnormal excitability of sensory neurons is coupled to changes in the neurotransmitter phenotype, which could induce a resistance to conventional analgesic treatments. CONCLUSION A clear understanding of the factors leading to the chronification of back pain should help us to move to the choice of mechanism related pain treatments to improve outcomes in FBSS chronic condition.
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- S Blond
- Department of Neurosurgery, Lille University Hospital, 59037 Lille Cedex, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Lyon University Hospital, 69677 Lyon Cedex, France; Laboratory of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, 69677 Lyon Cedex, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Poitiers University Hospital, 86021 Poitiers Cedex, France; N3 Lab: Neuromodulation & Neural Networks, Poitiers University Hospital, 86021 Poitiers Cedex, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Poitiers University Hospital, 86021 Poitiers Cedex, France; N3 Lab: Neuromodulation & Neural Networks, Poitiers University Hospital, 86021 Poitiers Cedex, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Poitiers University Hospital, 86021 Poitiers Cedex, France; N3 Lab: Neuromodulation & Neural Networks, Poitiers University Hospital, 86021 Poitiers Cedex, France; Inserm CIC 802, 86021 Poitiers Cedex, France.
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BDNF-dependent plasticity induced by peripheral inflammation in the primary sensory and the cingulate cortex triggers cold allodynia and reveals a major role for endogenous BDNF as a tuner of the affective aspect of pain. J Neurosci 2015; 34:14739-51. [PMID: 25355226 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0860-14.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Painful experiences are multilayered, composed of sensory, affective, cognitive and behavioral facets. Whereas it is well accepted that the development of chronic pain is due to maladaptive neuronal changes, the underlying molecular mechanisms, their relationship to the different pain modalities, and indeed the localization of these changes are still unknown. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is an activity-dependent neuromodulator in the adult brain, which enhances neuronal excitability. In the spinal cord, BDNF underlies the development and maintenance of inflammatory and neuropathic pain. Here, we hypothesized that BDNF could be a trigger of some of these plastic changes. Our results demonstrate that BDNF is upregulated in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the primary sensory cortex (S1) in rats with inflammatory pain. Injections of recombinant BDNF (into the ACC) or a viral vector synthesizing BDNF (into the ACC or S1) triggered both neuronal hyperexcitability, as shown by elevated long-term potentiation, and sustained pain hypersensitivity. Finally, pharmacological blockade of BDNF-tropomyosin receptor kinase B (TrkB) signaling in the ACC, through local injection of cyclotraxin-B (a novel, highly potent, and selective TrkB antagonist) prevented neuronal hyperexcitability, the emergence of cold hypersensitivity, and passive avoidance behavior. These findings show that BDNF-dependent neuronal plasticity in the ACC, a structure known to be involved in the affective-emotional aspect of pain, is a key mechanism in the development and maintenance of the emotional aspect of chronic pain.
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Taylor BK, Corder G. Endogenous analgesia, dependence, and latent pain sensitization. Curr Top Behav Neurosci 2014; 20:283-325. [PMID: 25227929 PMCID: PMC4464817 DOI: 10.1007/7854_2014_351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Endogenous activation of µ-opioid receptors (MORs) provides relief from acute pain. Recent studies have established that tissue inflammation produces latent pain sensitization (LS) that is masked by spinal MOR signaling for months, even after complete recovery from injury and re-establishment of normal pain thresholds. Disruption with MOR inverse agonists reinstates pain and precipitates cellular, somatic, and aversive signs of physical withdrawal; this phenomenon requires N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-mediated activation of calcium-sensitive adenylyl cyclase type 1 (AC1). In this review, we present a new conceptual model of the transition from acute to chronic pain, based on the delicate balance between LS and endogenous analgesia that develops after painful tissue injury. First, injury activates pain pathways. Second, the spinal cord establishes MOR constitutive activity (MORCA) as it attempts to control pain. Third, over time, the body becomes dependent on MORCA, which paradoxically sensitizes pain pathways. Stress or injury escalates opposing inhibitory and excitatory influences on nociceptive processing as a pathological consequence of increased endogenous opioid tone. Pain begets MORCA begets pain vulnerability in a vicious cycle. The final result is a silent insidious state characterized by the escalation of two opposing excitatory and inhibitory influences on pain transmission: LS mediated by AC1 (which maintains the accelerator) and pain inhibition mediated by MORCA (which maintains the brake). This raises the prospect that opposing homeostatic interactions between MORCA analgesia and latent NMDAR-AC1-mediated pain sensitization creates a lasting vulnerability to develop chronic pain. Thus, chronic pain syndromes may result from a failure in constitutive signaling of spinal MORs and a loss of endogenous analgesic control. An overarching long-term therapeutic goal of future research is to alleviate chronic pain by either (a) facilitating endogenous opioid analgesia, thus restricting LS within a state of remission, or (b) extinguishing LS altogether.
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- Bradley K Taylor
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY, 40536-0298, USA,
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Zhou XL, Yu LN, Wang Y, Tang LH, Peng YN, Cao JL, Yan M. Increased methylation of the MOR gene proximal promoter in primary sensory neurons plays a crucial role in the decreased analgesic effect of opioids in neuropathic pain. Mol Pain 2014; 10:51. [PMID: 25118039 PMCID: PMC4137045 DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-10-51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2014] [Accepted: 07/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The analgesic potency of opioids is reduced in neuropathic pain. However, the molecular mechanism is not well understood. RESULTS The present study demonstrated that increased methylation of the Mu opioid receptor (MOR) gene proximal promoter (PP) in dorsal root ganglion (DRG) plays a crucial role in the decreased morphine analgesia. Subcutaneous (s.c.), intrathecal (i.t.) and intraplantar (i.pl.), not intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) injection of morphine, the potency of morphine analgesia was significantly reduced in nerve-injured mice compared with control sham-operated mice. After peripheral nerve injury, we observed a decreased expression of MOR protein and mRNA, accompanied by an increased methylation status of MOR gene PP, in DRG. However, peripheral nerve injury could not induce a decreased expression of MOR mRNA in the spinal cord. Treatment with 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (5-aza-dC), inhibited the increased methylation of MOR gene PP and prevented the decreased expression of MOR in DRG, thereby improved systemic, spinal and periphery morphine analgesia. CONCLUSIONS Altogether, our results demonstrate that increased methylation of the MOR gene PP in DRG is required for the decreased morphine analgesia in neuropathic pain.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
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Zhang TC, Janik JJ, Grill WM. Mechanisms and models of spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of neuropathic pain. Brain Res 2014; 1569:19-31. [PMID: 24802658 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.04.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2014] [Revised: 04/25/2014] [Accepted: 04/27/2014] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an established and cost-effective therapy for treating severe chronic pain. However, despite over 40 years of clinical practice and the development of novel electrode designs and treatment protocols, increases in clinical success, defined as the proportion of patients that experience 50% or greater self-reported pain relief, have stalled. An incomplete knowledge of the neural circuits and systems underlying chronic pain and the interaction of SCS with these circuits may underlie this plateau in clinical efficacy. This review summarizes prior work and identifies gaps in our knowledge regarding the neural circuits related to pain and SCS in the dorsal horn, supraspinal structures, and the Pain Matrix. In addition, this review discusses and critiques current experimental and computational models used to investigate and optimize SCS. Further research into the interactions between SCS and pain pathways in the nervous system using animal and computational models is a fruitful approach to improve this promising therapy.
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- Tianhe C Zhang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
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Shehab SADS. Fifth lumbar spinal nerve injury causes neurochemical changes in corresponding as well as adjacent spinal segments: a possible mechanism underlying neuropathic pain. J Chem Neuroanat 2014; 55:38-50. [PMID: 24394408 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2013.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2013] [Revised: 12/23/2013] [Accepted: 12/23/2013] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Previous investigations of the anatomical basis of the neuropathic-like manifestations in the spinal nerve ligation animal model have shown that the central terminations of the unmyelinated primary afferents of L5 spinal nerve are not restricted to the corresponding L5 spinal segment, and rather extend to two spinal segments rostrally and one segment caudally where they intermingle with primary afferents of the adjacent L4 spinal nerve. The aim of the present study was to investigate the neurochemical changes in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord and DRGs after L5 nerve injury in rats. In the first experiment, the right L5 nerve was ligated and sectioned for 14 days, and isolectin B4 (IB4, a tracer for unmyelinated primary afferents) was injected into the left L5 nerve. The results showed that the vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) was up-regulated in laminae I-II of L3-L6 spinal segments on the right side in exactly the same areas where IB4 labelled terminals were revealed on the left side. In the second experiment, L5 was ligated and sectioned and the spinal cord and DRGs were stained immunocytochemically with antibodies raised against various peptides known to be involved in pain transmission and hyperalgesia. The results showed that L5 nerve lesion caused down-regulation of substance P, calcitonin-gene related peptide and IB4 binding and up-regulation of neuropeptide Y and neurokinin-1 receptor in the dorsal horn of L4 and L5 spinal segments. Similar neurochemical changes were observed only in the corresponding L5 DRG with minimal effects observed in L3, L4 and L6 DRGs. Although, L5 nerve injury caused an up-regulation in NPY, no change in SP and CGRP immunoreactivity was observed in ipsilateral garcile nucleus. These neuroplastic changes in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, in the adjacent uninjured territories of the central terminations of the adjacent uninjured nerves, might explain the mechanism of hyperalgesia after peripheral nerve injury.
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- Safa Al-Deen Saudi Shehab
- Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, PO BOX 16777, United Arab Emirates.
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Botz B, Imreh A, Sándor K, Elekes K, Szolcsányi J, Reglődi D, Quinn JP, Stewart J, Zimmer A, Hashimoto H, Helyes Z. Role of Pituitary Adenylate-Cyclase Activating Polypeptide and Tac1 gene derived tachykinins in sensory, motor and vascular functions under normal and neuropathic conditions. Peptides 2013; 43:105-12. [PMID: 23499760 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2013.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2013] [Revised: 03/04/2013] [Accepted: 03/04/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Pituitary Adenylate-Cyclase Activating Polypeptide (PACAP) and Tac1 gene-encoded tachykinins (substance P: SP, neurokinin A: NKA) are expressed in capsaicin-sensitive nerves, but their role in nociception, inflammation and vasoregulation is unclear. Therefore, we investigated the function of these neuropeptides and the NK1 tachykinin receptor (from Tacr1 gene) in the partial sciatic nerve ligation-induced traumatic mononeuropathy model using gene deficient (PACAP(-/-), Tac1(-/-), and Tacr1(-/-)) mice. Mechanonociceptive threshold of the paw was measured with dynamic plantar aesthesiometry, motor coordination with Rota-Rod and cutaneous microcirculation with laser Doppler imaging. Neurogenic vasodilation was evoked by mustard oil stimulating sensory nerves. In wildtype mice 30-40% mechanical hyperalgesia developed one week after nerve ligation, which was not altered in Tac1(-/-) and Tacr1(-/-) mice, but was absent in PACAP(-/-) animals. Motor coordination of the PACAP(-/-) and Tac1(-/-) groups was significantly worse both before and after nerve ligation compared to their wildtypes, but it did not change in Tacr1(-/-) mice. Basal postoperative microcirculation on the plantar skin of PACAP(-/-) mice did not differ from the wildtypes, but was significantly lower in Tac1(-/-) and Tacr1(-/-) ones. In contrast, mustard oil-induced neurogenic vasodilation was significantly smaller in PACAP(-/-) mice, but not in Tacr1(-/-) and Tac1(-/-) animals. Both PACAP and SP/NKA, but not NK1 receptors participate in normal motor coordination. Tachykinins maintain basal cutaneous microcirculation. PACAP is a crucial mediator of neuropathic mechanical hyperalgesia and neurogenic vasodilation. Therefore identifying its target and developing selective, potent antagonists, might open promising new perspectives for the treatment of neuropathic pain and vascular complications.
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- Bálint Botz
- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, University of Pécs, H-7624 Pécs, Szigeti u. 12, Hungary
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Nerve damage takes place during surgery. As a consequence, significant numbers (10%-40%) of patients experience chronic neuropathic pain termed surgically induced neuropathic pain (SNPP). The initiating surgery and nerve damage set off a cascade of events that includes both pain and an inflammatory response, resulting in "peripheral and central sensitization," with the latter resulting from repeated barrages of neural activity from nociceptors. In affected patients, these initial events produce chemical, structural, and functional changes in the peripheral and central nervous systems (CNS). The maladaptive changes in damaged nerves lead to peripheral manifestations of the neuropathic state-allodynia, sensory loss, shooting pains, etc, that can manifest long after the effects of the surgical injury have resolved. The CNS manifestations that occur are termed "centralization of pain" and affect sensory, emotional, and other (eg, cognitive) systems as well as contributing to some of the manifestations of the chronic pain syndrome (eg, depression). Currently there are no objective measures of nociception and pain in the perioperative period. As such, intermittent or continuous pain may take place during and after surgery. New technologies including direct measures of specific brain function of nociception and new insights into preoperative evaluation of patients including genetic predisposition, appear to provide initial opportunities for decreasing the burden of SNPP, until treatments with high efficacy and low adverse effects that either prevent or treat pain are discovered.
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The plasticity of the association between mu-opioid receptor and glutamate ionotropic receptor N in opioid analgesic tolerance and neuropathic pain. Eur J Pharmacol 2013; 716:94-105. [PMID: 23499699 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2013.01.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2012] [Revised: 12/13/2012] [Accepted: 01/09/2013] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Multiple groups have reported the functional cross-regulation between mu-opioid (MOP) receptor and glutamate ionotropic receptor N (GluN), and the post-synaptic association of these receptors has been implicated in the transmission and modulation of nociceptive signals. Opioids, such as morphine, disrupt the MOP receptor-GluN receptor complex to stimulate the activity of GluN receptors via protein kinase C (PKC)/Src. This increased GluN receptor activity opposes MOP receptor signalling, and via neural nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) and calcium and calmodulin regulated kinase II (CaMKII) induces the phosphorylation and uncoupling of the opioid receptor, which results in the development of morphine analgesic tolerance. Both experimental in vivo activation of GluN receptors and neuropathic pain separate the MOP receptor-GluN receptor complex via protein kinase A (PKA) and reduce the analgesic capacity of morphine. The histidine triad nucleotide-binding protein 1 (HINT1) associates with the MOP receptor C-terminus and connects the activities of MOP receptor and GluN receptor. In HINT1⁻/⁻ mice, morphine promotes enhanced analgesia and produces tolerance that is not related to GluN receptor activity. In these mice, the GluN receptor agonist N-methyl-D-aspartate acid (NMDA) does not antagonise the analgesic effects of morphine. Treatments that rescue morphine from analgesic tolerance, such as GluN receptor antagonism or PKC, nNOS and CaMKII inhibitors, all induce MOP receptor-GluN receptor re-association and reduce GluN receptor/CaMKII activity. In mice treated with NMDA or suffering from neuropathic pain (induced by chronic constriction injury, CCI), GluN receptor antagonists, PKA inhibitors or certain antidepressants also diminish CaMKII activity and restore the MOP receptor-GluN receptor association. Thus, the HINT1 protein stabilises the association between MOP receptor and GluN receptor, necessary for the analgesic efficacy of morphine, and this coupling is reduced following the activation of GluN receptors, similar to what is observed in neuropathic pain.
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Shen J, Fox LE, Cheng J. Swim therapy reduces mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia induced by chronic constriction nerve injury in rats. PAIN MEDICINE 2013; 14:516-25. [PMID: 23438327 DOI: 10.1111/pme.12057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Neuropathic pain is common and often difficult to treat because it generally does not respond well to the currently available pain medications or nerve blocks. Recent studies in both humans and animals have suggested that exercise may induce a transient analgesia and reduce acute pain in normal healthy individuals. We examined whether swim therapy could alleviate neuropathic pain in rats. DESIGN Rats were trained to swim over a 2-week period in warm water. After the rats were trained, neuropathic pain was induced by constricting the right sciatic nerve, and regular swimming was resumed. The sensitivity of each hind paw was monitored using the Hargreaves test and von Frey test to evaluate the withdrawal response thresholds to heat and touch. RESULTS The paw ipsilateral to the nerve ligation expressed pain-like behaviors including thermal hyperalgesia and mechanical allodynia. Regular swim therapy sessions significantly reduced the mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia. Swim therapy had little effect on the withdrawal thresholds for the contralateral paw. In addition, swim therapy alone did not alter the thermal or mechanical thresholds of normal rats. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that regular exercise, including swim therapy, may be an effective treatment for neuropathic pain caused by nerve injuries. This study, showing that swim therapy reduces neuropathic pain behavior in rats, provides a scientific rationale for clinicians to test the efficacy of exercise in the management of neuropathic pain. It may prove to be a safe and cost-effective therapy in a variety of neuropathic pain states.
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- Jun Shen
- Departments of Neurosciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Chen HJ, Xie WY, Hu F, Zhang Y, Wang J, Wang Y. Disruption of δ-opioid receptor phosphorylation at threonine 161 attenuates morphine tolerance in rats with CFA-induced inflammatory hypersensitivity. Neurosci Bull 2012; 28:182-92. [PMID: 22466129 DOI: 10.1007/s12264-012-1216-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Our previous study identified Threonine 161 (Thr-161), located in the second intracellular loop of the δ-opioid receptor (DOR), as the only consensus phosphorylation site for cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5). The aim of this study was to assess the function of DOR phosphorylation by Cdk5 in complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA)-induced inflammatory pain and morphine tolerance. METHODS Dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons of rats with CFA-induced inflammatory pain were acutely dissociated and the biotinylation method was used to explore the membrane localization of phosphorylated DOR at Thr-161 (pThr-161-DOR), and paw withdrawal latency was measured after intrathecal delivery of drugs or Tat-peptide, using a radiant heat stimulator in rats with CFA-induced inflammatory pain. RESULTS Both the total amount and the surface localization of pThr-161-DOR were significantly enhanced in the ipsilateral DRG following CFA injection. Intrathecal delivery of the engineered Tat fusion-interefering peptide corresponding to the second intracellular loop of DOR (Tat-DOR-2L) increased inflammatory hypersensitivity, and inhibited DOR- but not µ-opioid receptor-mediated spinal analgesia in CFA-treated rats. However, intrathecal delivery of Tat-DOR-2L postponed morphine antinociceptive tolerance in rats with CFA-induced inflammatory pain. CONCLUSION Phosphorylation of DOR at Thr-161 by Cdk5 attenuates hypersensitivity and potentiates morphine tolerance in rats with CFA-induced inflammatory pain, while disruption of the phosphorylation of DOR at Thr-161 attenuates morphine tolerance.
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- Hai-Jing Chen
- Neuroscience Research Institute, Peking University, Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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Sato K, King E, Johanek L, Sluka K. Spinal cord stimulation reduces hypersensitivity through activation of opioid receptors in a frequency-dependent manner. Eur J Pain 2012; 17:551-61. [DOI: 10.1002/j.1532-2149.2012.00220.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- K.L. Sato
- Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, Carver College of Medicine; The University of Iowa; USA
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- Department of Anesthesia; Carver College of Medicine; The University of Iowa; USA
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- Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, Carver College of Medicine; The University of Iowa; USA
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Hwang PY, Allen KD, Shamji MF, Jing L, Mata BA, Gabr MA, Huebner JL, Kraus VB, Richardson WJ, Setton LA. Changes in midbrain pain receptor expression, gait and behavioral sensitivity in a rat model of radiculopathy. Open Orthop J 2012; 6:383-91. [PMID: 22962568 PMCID: PMC3434701 DOI: 10.2174/1874325001206010383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2012] [Revised: 07/25/2012] [Accepted: 07/31/2012] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Intervertebral disc herniation may contribute to inflammatory processes that associate with radicular pain and motor deficits. Molecular changes at the affected dorsal root ganglion (DRG), spinal cord, and even midbrain, have been documented in rat models of radiculopathy or nerve injury. The objective of this study was to evaluate gait and the expression of key pain receptors in the midbrain in a rodent model of radiculopathy. Radiculopathy was induced by harvesting tail nucleus pulposus (NP) and placing upon the right L5 DRG in rats (NP-treated, n=12). Tail NP was discarded in sham-operated animals (n=12). Mechanical allodynia, weight-bearing, and gait were evaluated in all animals over time. At 1 and 4 weeks after surgery, astrocyte and microglial activation was tested in DRG sections. Midbrain sections were similarly evaluated for immunoreactivity to serotonin (5HT2B), mu-opioid (µ-OR), and metabotropic glutamate (mGluR4 and 5) receptor antibodies. NP-treated animals placed less weight on the affected limb 1 week after surgery and experienced mechanical hypersensitivity over the duration of the study. Astroctye activation was observed at DRGs only at 4 weeks after surgery. Findings for pain receptors in the midbrain of NP-treated rats included an increased expression of 5HT2B at 1, but not 4 weeks; increased expression of µ-OR and mGluR5 at 1 and 4 weeks (periaqueductal gray region only); and no changes in expression of mGluR4 at any point in this study. These observations provide support for the hypothesis that the midbrain responds to DRG injury with a transient change in receptors regulating pain responses.
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- Priscilla Y Hwang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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Lithium attenuates pain-related behavior in a rat model of neuropathic pain: Possible involvement of opioid system. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2012; 100:425-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2011.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2010] [Revised: 09/12/2011] [Accepted: 10/02/2011] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Sardella T, Polgár E, Watanabe M, Todd A. A quantitative study of neuronal nitric oxide synthase expression in laminae I-III of the rat spinal dorsal horn. Neuroscience 2011; 192:708-20. [PMID: 21763759 PMCID: PMC3183229 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2011] [Revised: 06/30/2011] [Accepted: 07/01/2011] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Nitric oxide produced by neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in the spinal cord is required for development of hyperalgesia in inflammatory and neuropathic pain states. nNOS is expressed by some dorsal horn neurons, and an early study that used a histochemical method to identify these cells suggested that they were mainly inhibitory interneurons. We have carried out a quantitative analysis of nNOS-immunoreactivity in laminae I-III of the rat dorsal horn, to determine the proportion of inhibitory and excitatory neurons and axonal boutons that express the protein. nNOS was present in ∼5% of neurons in laminae I and III, and 18% of those in lamina II. Although most cells with strong nNOS immunostaining were GABA-immunoreactive, two-thirds of the nNOS-positive cells in lamina II and half of those in lamina III were not GABAergic, and some of these expressed protein kinase Cγ (PKCγ). We estimate that nNOS is present in 17-19% of the inhibitory interneurons in laminae I-II, and 6% of those in lamina III. However, our results suggest that nNOS is also expressed at a relatively low level by a significant proportion (∼17%) of excitatory interneurons in lamina II. nNOS was seldom seen in boutons that contained vesicular glutamate transporter 2, which is expressed by excitatory interneurons, but was co-localised with the vesicular GABA transporter (VGAT, a marker for GABAergic and glycinergic axons). nNOS was detected in 13% of VGAT boutons in lamina I and in 7-8% of those in laminae II-III. However, it was only found in 2-4% of the VGAT boutons that were presynaptic to PKCγ-expressing interneurons in this region. These results indicate that nNOS is more widely expressed than previously thought, being present in both inhibitory and excitatory neurons. They provide further evidence that axons of neurochemically defined populations of inhibitory interneuron are selective in their post-synaptic targets.
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- T.C.P. Sardella
- Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, West Medical Building, University Avenue, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, West Medical Building, University Avenue, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
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- Department of Anatomy, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, West Medical Building, University Avenue, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
- Corresponding author. Tel: +44-141-330-5868; fax: +44-141-330-2868
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Dagci T, Sengul G, Keser A, Onal A. NADPH-d and Fos reactivity in the rat spinal cord following experimental spinal cord injury and embryonic neural stem cell transplantation. Life Sci 2011; 88:746-52. [PMID: 21376061 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2011.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2010] [Revised: 12/28/2010] [Accepted: 02/03/2011] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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AIMS The aim of this study is to determine the role of nitric oxide (NO) in neuropathic pain and the effect of embryonic neural stem cell (ENSC) transplantation on NO content in rat spinal cord neurons following spinal cord injury (SCI). MAIN METHODS Ninety adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into 3 groups (n=30, each): control (laminectomy), SCI (hemisection at T12-T13 segments) and SCI+ENSC. Each group was further divided into sub-groups (n=5 each) based on the treatment substance (L-NAME, 75 mg/kg/i.p.; L-arginine, 225 mg/kg/i.p.; physiological saline, SF) and duration (2h for acute and 28 days for chronic groups). Pain was assessed by tail flick and Randall-Selitto tests. Fos immunohistochemistry and NADPH-d histochemistry were performed in segments 2 cm rostral and caudal to SCI. KEY FINDINGS Tail-flick latency time increased in both acute and chronic L-NAME groups and increased in acute and decreased in chronic L-arginine groups. The number of Fos (+) neurons decreased in acute and chronic L-NAME and decreased in acute L-arginine groups. Following ENSC, Fos (+) neurons did not change in acute L-NAME but decreased in the chronic L-NAME groups, and decreased in both acute and chronic L-arginine groups. NADPH-d (+) neurons decreased in acute L-NAME and increased in L-arginine groups with and without ENSC transplantation. SIGNIFICANCE This study confirms the role of NO in neuropathic pain and shows an improvement following ENSC transplantation in the acute phase, observed as a decrease in Fos(+) and NADPH-d (+) neurons in spinal cord segments rostral and caudal to injury.
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- Taner Dagci
- Department of Physiology, Ege University, School of Medicine, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
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Tatsushima Y, Egashira N, Kawashiri T, Mihara Y, Yano T, Mishima K, Oishi R. Involvement of Substance P in Peripheral Neuropathy Induced by Paclitaxel but Not Oxaliplatin. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2011; 337:226-35. [DOI: 10.1124/jpet.110.175976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Reactive nitroxidative species and nociceptive processing: determining the roles for nitric oxide, superoxide, and peroxynitrite in pain. Amino Acids 2010; 42:75-94. [PMID: 20552384 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-010-0633-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2010] [Accepted: 05/15/2010] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Pain is a multidimensional perception and is modified at distinct regions of the neuroaxis. During enhanced pain, neuroplastic changes occur in the spinal and supraspinal nociceptive modulating centers and may result in a hypersensitive state termed central sensitization, which is thought to contribute to chronic pain states. Central sensitization culminates in hyperexcitability of dorsal horn nociceptive neurons resulting in increased nociceptive transmission and pain perception. This state is associated with enhanced nociceptive signaling, spinal glutamate-mediated N-methyl-D: -aspartate receptor activation, neuroimmune activation, nitroxidative stress, and supraspinal descending facilitation. The nitroxidative species considered for their role in nociception and central sensitization include nitric oxide (NO), superoxide ([Formula: see text]), and peroxynitrite (ONOO(-)). Nitroxidative species are implicated during persistent but not normal nociceptive processing. This review examines the role of nitroxidative species in pain through a discussion of their contributions to central sensitization and the underlying mechanisms. Future directions for nitroxidative pain research are also addressed. As more selective pharmacologic agents are developed to target nitroxidative species, the exact role of nitroxidative species in pain states will be better characterized and should offer promising alternatives to available pain management options.
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Datta S, Chatterjee K, Kline RH, Wiley RG. Behavioral and anatomical characterization of the bilateral sciatic nerve chronic constriction (bCCI) injury: correlation of anatomic changes and responses to cold stimuli. Mol Pain 2010; 6:7. [PMID: 20105332 PMCID: PMC2825192 DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-6-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2009] [Accepted: 01/27/2010] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Background Unilateral constrictive sciatic nerve injury (uCCI) is a common neuropathic pain model. However, the bilateral constrictive injury (bCCI) model is less well studied, and shows unique characteristics. In the present study, we sought to correlate effects of bCCI on nocifensive responses to cold and mechanical stimuli with selected dorsal horn anatomic markers. bCCI or sham ligation of both rat sciatic nerves were followed up to 90 days of behavioural testing. Additional rats sacrificed at 15, 30 and 90 days were used for anatomic analyses. Behavioural tests included hindpaw withdrawal responses to topical acetone, cold plate testing, an operant thermal preference task and hindpaw withdrawal thresholds to mechanical probing. Results All nocifensive responses to cold increased and remained enhanced for >45 days. Mechanical withdrawal thresholds decreased for 25 days only. Densitometric analyses of immunoperoxidase staining in the superficial dorsal horn at L4-5 revealed decreased cholecystokinin (CCK) staining at all times after bCCI, decreased mu opiate receptor (MOR) staining, maximal at 15 days, increased neuropeptide Y (NPY) staining only at days 15 and 30, and increased neurokinin-1 receptor (NK-1R) staining at all time points, maximal at 15 days. Correlation analyses at 45 days post-bCCI, were significant for individual rat nocifensive responses in each cold test and CCK and NK-1R, but not for MOR or NPY. Conclusions These results confirm the usefulness of cold testing in bCCI rats, a new approach using CCI to model neuropathic pain, and suggest a potential value of studying the roles of dorsal horn CCK and substance P in chronic neuropathic pain. Compared to human subjects with neuropathic pain, responses to cold stimuli in rats with bCCI may be a useful model of neuropathic pain.
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- Sukdeb Datta
- Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Tesser-Viscaíno SA, Denadai-Souza A, Teixeira SA, Ervolino E, Cruz-Rizzolo RJ, Costa SK, Muscará MN, Casatti CA. Putative antinociceptive action of nitric oxide in the caudal part of the spinal trigeminal nucleus during chronic carrageenan-induced arthritis in the rat temporomandibular joint. Brain Res 2009; 1302:85-96. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.09.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2009] [Revised: 09/14/2009] [Accepted: 09/14/2009] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Jean YH, Chen WF, Sung CS, Duh CY, Huang SY, Lin CS, Tai MH, Tzeng SF, Wen ZH. Capnellene, a natural marine compound derived from soft coral, attenuates chronic constriction injury-induced neuropathic pain in rats. Br J Pharmacol 2009; 158:713-25. [PMID: 19663884 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.2009.00323.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Natural compounds obtained from marine organisms have received considerable attention as potential sources of novel drugs for treatment of human inflammatory diseases. Capnellene, isolated from the marine soft coral Capnella imbricate, 4,4,6a-trimethyl-3-methylene-decahydro-cyclopenta[]pentalene-2,3a-diol (GB9) exhibited anti-inflammatory actions on activated macrophages in vitro. Here we have assessed the anti-neuroinflammatory properties of GB9 and its acetylated derivative, acetic acid 3a-hydroxy-4,4,6a-trimethyl-3-methylene-decahydro-cyclopenta[]pentalen-2-yl ester (GB10). EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH Effects of GB9 or GB10 on the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma)-stimulated mouse microglial BV2 cells were measured by Western blot. The in vivo effects of these compounds were examined in the chronic constriction injury (CCI) rat model of neuropathic pain, measuring thermal hyperalgesia, and microglial activation and COX-2 protein in lumbar spinal cord, by immunohistochemistry. KEY RESULTS In BV2 cells, GB9 and GB10 inhibited the expression of iNOS and COX-2, stimulated by IFN-gamma. Intrathecal administration of GB9 and GB10 inhibited CCI-induced nociceptive sensitization and thermal hyperalgesia in a dose-dependent manner. Intraperitoneal injection of GB9 inhibited CCI-induced thermal hyperalgesia and also inhibited CCI-induced activation of microglial cells and up-regulation of COX-2 in the dorsal horn of the lumbar spinal cord ipsilateral to the injury. CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS Taken together, these data indicate that the marine-derived capnellenes, GB9 and GB10, had anti-neuroinflammatory and anti-nociceptive properties in IFN-gamma-stimulated microglial cells and in neuropathic rats respectively. Therefore, capnellene may serve as a useful lead compound in the search for new therapeutic agents for treatment of neuroinflammatory diseases.
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- Yen-Hsuan Jean
- Section of Orthopedic Surgery, Pingtung Christian Hospital, Pingtung, Taiwan
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Kouzaki Y, Takita T, Tawara S, Otsuka T, Hirano T, Uchino M. [Opioid effectiveness for neuropathic pain in a patient with glossopharyngeal neuralgia]. Rinsho Shinkeigaku 2009; 49:364-369. [PMID: 19618847 DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.49.364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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A 55-year-old man complained of intermittent piercing pain on the right side of his throat. In a visit to our hospital, he was diagnosed with glossopharyngeal neuralgia and was treated with carbamazepine. But he obtained no pain relief and had drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome due to carbamazepine on admission. We discontinued the carbamazepine, so the severity of the throat pain increased. We then administered codeine, which alleviated the pain; an increase in the dosage led to complete pain remission. After his general condition improved, he underwent an operation for microvascular decompression. In general, opioids are not efficacious against neuropathic pain, including glossopharyngeal neuralgia. However, recent studies do show their effectiveness against such pain via various mechanisms. They may control neuropathic pain through their effects on cortical brain regions and the thalamus, they may affect the descending antinociceptive pathway via actions on the periaqueductal gray, and they may modulate pain transmission in the spinal dorsal horn. We believe this to be the first case report to mention the effectiveness of opioids for glossopharyngeal neuralgia. If the control of pain is difficult in cases of glossopharyngeal neuralgia, opioids may be a useful therapeutic option.
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- Yanosuke Kouzaki
- Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Kumamoto Medical Center
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Almarestani L, Waters SM, Krause JE, Bennett GJ, Ribeiro-da-Silva A. De novo expression of the neurokinin 1 receptor in spinal lamina I pyramidal neurons in polyarthritis. J Comp Neurol 2009; 514:284-95. [PMID: 19296480 DOI: 10.1002/cne.22024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Spinal lamina I (LI) neurons play a major role in the transmission and integration of pain-related information that is relayed to higher centers. Alterations in the excitability of these neurons influence chronic pain development, and expression of the neurokinin 1 receptor (NK-1r) is thought to play a major role in such changes. Novel expression of NK-1r may underlie hyperexcitability in new populations of LI neurons. LI projection neurons can be classified morphologically into fusiform, pyramidal, and multipolar cells, differing in their functional properties, with the pyramidal type being nonnociceptive. In agreement with this, we have shown that spinoparabrachial pyramidal neurons seldom express NK-1r, in contrast with the other two cell types. In this study we investigated in the rat the long-term changes in NK-1r expression by spinoparabrachial LI neurons following the unilateral injection in the hindpaw plantar surface of complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA). Cholera toxin subunit B (CTb) was injected unilaterally into the parabrachial nucleus. Our results revealed that, ipsilaterally, pyramidal neurons were seldom immunoreactive for NK-1r both in saline-injected and in CFA-injected rats, up to 10 days post-CFA. However, a considerable number of pyramidal cells were immunoreactive for NK-1r at 15, 21, and 30 days post-CFA. Our data raise the possibility -- which needs to be confirmed by electrophysiology -- that most LI projection neurons of the pyramidal type are likely nonnociceptive in naive animals but might become nociceptive following the development of arthritis.
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- L Almarestani
- Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Metz AE, Yau HJ, Centeno MV, Apkarian AV, Martina M. Morphological and functional reorganization of rat medial prefrontal cortex in neuropathic pain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:2423-8. [PMID: 19171885 PMCID: PMC2650172 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809897106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 320] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Neuropathic pain is a chronic pain that results from lesion or dysfunction of the nervous system. Depression and cognitive decline are often coupled to chronic pain, suggesting the involvement of cortical areas associated with higher cognitive functions. We investigated layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons in acute slices of the contralateral medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in the rat spared nerve injury (SNI) model of neuropathic pain and found morphological and functional differences between the mPFC of SNI and sham-operated animals. Basal, but not apical, dendrites of neurons from SNI rats are longer and have more branches than their counterparts in sham-operated animals; spine density is also selectively increased in basal dendrites of neurons from SNI rats; the morphological changes are accompanied by increased contribution to synaptic currents of the NMDA component. Interestingly, the NMDA/AMPA ratio of the synaptic current elicited in mPFC neurons by afferent fiber stimulation shows linear correlation with the rats' tactile threshold in the injured (but not in the contralateral) paw. Our results not only provide evidence that neuropathic pain leads to rearrangement of the mPFC, which may help defining the cellular basis for cognitive impairments associated with chronic pain, but also show pain-associated morphological changes in the cortex at single neuron level.
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- Alexia E. Metz
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
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Kim YK, Park JY, Hwang JH. Comparison of antiallodynic effect of intrathecal morphine, brimonidine and rilmenidine between neuritis and ligation injury induced neuropathic pain. Korean J Anesthesiol 2009; 56:425-432. [DOI: 10.4097/kjae.2009.56.4.425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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- Young-Kug Kim
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Chung KY, Shin SW, Kwon SA, Kim TK, Baek SH, Baik SW. The Antiallodynic Effect and the Change of the α 2Adrenergic Receptor Subtype mRNA Expression by Morphine Administration in a Spinal Nerve Ligation Rat Model. Korean J Pain 2009. [DOI: 10.3344/kjp.2009.22.1.21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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- Kyu Yeon Chung
- Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea
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Almarestani L, Longo G, Ribeiro-da-Silva A. Autonomic fiber sprouting in the skin in chronic inflammation. Mol Pain 2008; 4:56. [PMID: 19014600 PMCID: PMC2637239 DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-4-56] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2008] [Accepted: 11/14/2008] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Pain is a major symptom associated with chronic inflammation. In previous work from our laboratory, we have shown that in animal models of neuropathic pain there is a sprouting of sympathetic fibers into the upper dermis, a territory normally devoid of them. However, it is not known whether such sympathetic spouting, which is likely trophic factor mediated, also occurs in chronic inflammation and arthritis. In the present study, we used a rat model of chronic inflammation in which a small single dose of complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) was injected subcutaneously, unilaterally, into the plantar surface of the hindpaw. This led to a localized long-term skin inflammation and arthritis in all joints of the hindpaw. Animals were perfused with histological fixatives at 1, 2, 3 or 4 weeks after the injection. Experimental animals treated with CFA were compared to saline-injected animals. We then investigated the changes in the pattern of peripheral innervation of the peptidergic nociceptors and sympathetic fibers in rat glabrous hindpaw skin. Antibodies directed towards calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH) were used for the staining of peptidergic and sympathetic fibers, respectively. Immunofluorescence was then used to analyze the different nerve fiber populations of the upper dermis. At 4 weeks following CFA treatment, DBH-immunoreactive (IR) fibers were found to sprout into the upper dermis, in a pattern similar to the one we had observed in animals with a chronic constriction injury of the sciatic nerve in a previous publication. There was also a significant increase in the density of CGRP-IR fibers in the upper dermis in CFA treated animals at 2, 3 and 4 weeks post-injection. The increased peptidergic fiber innervation and the ectopic autonomic fibers found in the upper dermis may have a role in the pain-related behavior displayed by these animals.
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- Lina Almarestani
- Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Tseng TJ, Chen CC, Hsieh YL, Hsieh ST. Influences of surgical decompression on the dorsal horn after chronic constriction injury: changes in peptidergic and delta-opioid receptor (+) nerve terminals. Neuroscience 2008; 156:758-68. [PMID: 18773941 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2008] [Revised: 08/06/2008] [Accepted: 08/07/2008] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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To understand plastic changes in the dorsal horn related to neuropathic pain, we developed a model of decompression in rats with chronic constriction injury (CCI) and investigated corresponding changes in the dorsal horn. At postoperative week 4 (POW 4) of CCI, rats were divided into a decompression group, in which ligatures were removed, and a CCI group, in which ligatures remained. Spinal cords were immunostained for substance P (SP), the delta-opioid receptor (DOR), and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). Areas of immunoreactive nerve terminals in the dorsal horn were quantified and expressed as the dorsal horn index (immunoreactive areas of the operated side compared with those of the contralateral side). At POW 4, dorsal horn indexes of all of these molecules were significantly reduced in both groups to similar degrees (0.36-0.43). At POW 8, neuropathic pain behaviors had completely disappeared in the decompression group with significant reversal of the dorsal horn indexes compared with the CCI group (0.81+/-0.02 vs. 0.58+/-0.09, P < 0.001 for SP and 0.75+/-0.04 vs. 0.55+/-0.03, P < 0.001 for DOR). In the CCI group, neuropathic pain behaviors became normalized at POW 12 with corresponding changes in dorsal horn indexes for both SP and DOR similar to those of the decompression group. In contrast, changes in the dorsal horn indexes of CGRP were similar in both the CCI and decompression groups throughout the experimental period. These findings suggest that CCI and decompression cause different patterns in peptidergic and DOR (+) nerve terminals in the dorsal horn.
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- T-J Tseng
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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Nociceptive behavior in animal models for peripheral neuropathy: spinal and supraspinal mechanisms. Prog Neurobiol 2008; 86:22-47. [PMID: 18602968 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2008.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2007] [Revised: 04/08/2008] [Accepted: 06/11/2008] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Since the initial description by Wall [Wall, P.D., 1967. The laminar organization of dorsal horn and effects of descending impulses. J. Neurophysiol. 188, 403-423] of tonic descending inhibitory control of dorsal horn neurons, several studies have aimed to characterize the role of various brain centers in the control of nociceptive input to the spinal cord. The role of brainstem centers in pain inhibition has been well documented over the past four decades. Lesion to peripheral nerves results in hypersensitivity to mild tactile or cold stimuli (allodynia) and exaggerated response to nociceptive stimuli (hyperalgesia), both considered as cardinal signs of neuropathic pain. The increased interest in animal models for peripheral neuropathy has raised several questions concerning the rostral conduction of the neuropathic manifestations and the role of supraspinal centers, especially brainstem, in the inhibitory control or in the abnormal contribution to the maintenance and facilitation of neuropathic-like behavior. This review aims to summarize the data on the ascending and descending modulation of neuropathic manifestations and discusses the recent experimental data on the role of supraspinal centers in the control of neuropathic pain. In particular, the review emphasizes the importance of the reciprocal interconnections between the analgesic areas of the brainstem and the pain-related areas of the forebrain. The latter includes the cerebral limbic areas, the prefrontal cortex, the intralaminar thalamus and the hypothalamus and play a critical role in the control of pain considered as part of an integrated behavior related to emotions and various homeostatic regulations. We finally speculate that neuropathic pain, like extrapyramidal motor syndromes, reflects a disorder in the processing of somatosensory information.
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Neto FL, Carvalhosa AR, Ferreira-Gomes J, Reguenga C, Castro-Lopes JM. Delta opioid receptor mRNA expression is changed in the thalamus and brainstem of monoarthritic rats. J Chem Neuroanat 2008; 36:122-7. [PMID: 18572383 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2008.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2008] [Revised: 05/09/2008] [Accepted: 05/09/2008] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Changes in the mRNA expression of neurotransmitters receptors under chronic pain conditions have been described in various areas of the central nervous system (CNS). Delta opioid receptors (DORs) have been implicated in pain mechanisms but, although its mRNA expression has been studied in the rat CNS, there are no reports describing its distribution in specific thalamic and brainstem nuclei during chronic inflammatory pain. Here, in situ hybridization for DOR mRNA was performed in brain sections from control and monoarthritic (MA) rats with 2, 4, 7 and 14 days of inflammation. Grain densities were determined bilaterally in the ventrobasal complex (VB), posterior (Po), centromedial/centrolateral (CM/CL) and reticular (Rt) nuclei of the thalamus, and in the dorsal reticular (DRt), lateral reticular (LRt) and parvocellular reticular (PCRt) nuclei of the brainstem. Control animals exhibited weak mRNA expression in the VB, Po and CM/CL, as well as in PCRt, while moderate grain densities were observed in the Rt, DRt and LRt. During MA, DOR mRNA expression was significantly decreased (22%) in the Rt contralateral to the affected joint at both 7 and 14 days of inflammation, as compared to controls. A bilateral reduction (35%) was also observed in the DRt at 14 days of MA, while a contralateral increase was found in the PCRt at 7 days (+39%). No significant changes were observed in the other regions analyzed. Thus, data show changes in the DOR mRNA expression during the development of chronic inflammatory pain, in thalamic and brainstem nuclei implicated in pain processing mechanisms.
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- Fani Lourença Neto
- Institute of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine of Porto and IBMC, University of Porto, Portugal.
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Shehab SA, Al-Marashda K, Al-Zahmi A, Abdul-Kareem A, Al-Sultan MA. Unmyelinated primary afferents from adjacent spinal nerves intermingle in the spinal dorsal horn: A possible mechanism contributing to neuropathic pain. Brain Res 2008; 1208:111-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.02.089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2007] [Revised: 02/08/2008] [Accepted: 02/22/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Vit JP, Ohara PT, Bhargava A, Kelley K, Jasmin L. Silencing the Kir4.1 potassium channel subunit in satellite glial cells of the rat trigeminal ganglion results in pain-like behavior in the absence of nerve injury. J Neurosci 2008; 28:4161-71. [PMID: 18417695 PMCID: PMC2533133 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5053-07.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2007] [Revised: 02/25/2008] [Accepted: 02/26/2008] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Growing evidence suggests that changes in the ion buffering capacity of glial cells can give rise to neuropathic pain. In the CNS, potassium ion (K+) buffering is dependent on the glia-specific inward rectifying K+ channel Kir4.1. We recently reported that the satellite glial cells that surround primary sensory neurons located in sensory ganglia of the peripheral nervous system also express Kir4.1, whereas the neurons do not. In the present study, we show that, in the rat trigeminal ganglion, the location of the primary sensory neurons for face sensation, specific silencing of Kir4.1 using RNA interference leads to spontaneous and evoked facial pain-like behavior in freely moving rats. We also show that Kir4.1 in the trigeminal ganglion is reduced after chronic constriction injury of the infraorbital nerve. These findings suggests that neuropathic pain can result from a change in expression of a single K+ channel in peripheral glial cells, raising the possibility of targeting Kir4.1 to treat pain in general and particularly neuropathic pain that occurs in the absence of nerve injury.
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- Jean-Philippe Vit
- Department of Neurosurgery and Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, and
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- Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143
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- Department of Neurosurgery and Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, and
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- Department of Neurosurgery and Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, and
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Hama A, Sagen J. Behavioral characterization and effect of clinical drugs in a rat model of pain following spinal cord compression. Brain Res 2007; 1185:117-28. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2007] [Revised: 09/06/2007] [Accepted: 09/10/2007] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Navarro X, Vivó M, Valero-Cabré A. Neural plasticity after peripheral nerve injury and regeneration. Prog Neurobiol 2007; 82:163-201. [PMID: 17643733 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2007.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 618] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2006] [Revised: 02/18/2007] [Accepted: 06/14/2007] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Injuries to the peripheral nerves result in partial or total loss of motor, sensory and autonomic functions conveyed by the lesioned nerves to the denervated segments of the body, due to the interruption of axons continuity, degeneration of nerve fibers distal to the lesion and eventual death of axotomized neurons. Injuries to the peripheral nervous system may thus result in considerable disability. After axotomy, neuronal phenotype switches from a transmitter to a regenerative state, inducing the down- and up-regulation of numerous cellular components as well as the synthesis de novo of some molecules normally not expressed in adult neurons. These changes in gene expression activate and regulate the pathways responsible for neuronal survival and axonal regeneration. Functional deficits caused by nerve injuries can be compensated by three neural mechanisms: the reinnervation of denervated targets by regeneration of injured axons, the reinnervation by collateral branching of undamaged axons, and the remodeling of nervous system circuitry related to the lost functions. Plasticity of central connections may compensate functionally for the lack of specificity in target reinnervation; plasticity in human has, however, limited effects on disturbed sensory localization or fine motor control after injuries, and may even result in maladaptive changes, such as neuropathic pain, hyperreflexia and dystonia. Recent research has uncovered that peripheral nerve injuries induce a concurrent cascade of events, at the systemic, cellular and molecular levels, initiated by the nerve injury and progressing throughout plastic changes at the spinal cord, brainstem relay nuclei, thalamus and brain cortex. Mechanisms for these changes are ubiquitous in central substrates and include neurochemical changes, functional alterations of excitatory and inhibitory connections, atrophy and degeneration of normal substrates, sprouting of new connections, and reorganization of somatosensory and motor maps. An important direction for ongoing research is the development of therapeutic strategies that enhance axonal regeneration, promote selective target reinnervation, but are also able to modulate central nervous system reorganization, amplifying those positive adaptive changes that help to improve functional recovery but also diminishing undesirable consequences.
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- X Navarro
- Group of Neuroplasticity and Regeneration, Institute of Neurosciences and Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
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Allbutt HN, Siddall PJ, Keay KA. Contusive spinal cord injury evokes localized changes in NADPH-d activity but extensive changes in Fos-like immunoreactivity in the rat. J Anat 2007; 211:352-70. [PMID: 17584182 PMCID: PMC2375816 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2007.00765.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The histological detection of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase (NADPH-d), a marker for nitric oxide-producing cells, was used to evaluate ongoing changes in the neural biochemistry of the rat spinal cord 1 week following contusive spinal cord injury (SCI). In addition, the immunohistochemical detection of the immediate-early gene c-fos was used to identify basal patterns of neural activity at this time. The numbers and laminar locations of NADPH-d- and c-fos-positive cells were examined in spinal segments adjacent to the site of injury (T12-S3) as well as those distant from the injury (C3-C5) in both SCI and un-injured rats. Our data show that contusive SCI results in a significant reduction in NADPH-d labelling in the superficial dorsal horn, and a significant increase in NADPH-d expression in small bipolar neurons and large motoneurons in the ventral horn at the site of the injury. In spinal segments distant to the injury site (C3-C5), NADPH-d activity did not differ from that of uninjured controls. Furthermore, significant reductions in the levels of c-fos expression were observed in SCI rats, in spinal segments both at and distant to the site of injury for all spinal laminae. The only exception was a dramatic increase observed in the sacral parasympathetic nucleus. These data suggest that increased NADPH-d expression is related to conditions specific to the site of injury, whereas the changes in c-fos expression probably indicate more global changes in neuronal activity following SCI.
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- Haydn N Allbutt
- School of Medical Sciences (Anatomy & Histology), University of Sydney, Australia.
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Sykes KT, White SR, Hurley RW, Mizoguchi H, Tseng LF, Hammond DL. Mechanisms responsible for the enhanced antinociceptive effects of micro-opioid receptor agonists in the rostral ventromedial medulla of male rats with persistent inflammatory pain. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2007; 322:813-21. [PMID: 17494863 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.107.121954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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This study investigated three possible mechanisms by which the antinociceptive effects of the mu-opioid receptor (MOR) agonist [d-Ala(2),N-Me-Phe(4),Gly(5)-ol]-enkephalin (DAMGO) and the delta-opioid receptor (DOR) agonist [d-Ala(2),Glu(4)]-deltorphin (deltorphin II) (DELT), microinjected into the rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM), are enhanced in rats with persistent inflammatory injury. Radioligand binding determined that neither the B(max) nor the K(d) values of [(3)H]DAMGO differed in RVM membranes from rats that received an intraplantar injection of saline or complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) in one hindpaw 4 h, 4 days, or 2 weeks earlier. Likewise, neither the EC(50) nor the E(max) value for DAMGO-induced stimulation of guanosine 5'-O-(3-[(35)S]thio)triphosphate ([(35)S]GTPgammaS) binding differed in the RVM of saline- or CFA-treated rats at any time point. Microinjection of fixed dose combinations of DAMGO and DELT in the RVM of naive rats indicated that these agonists interact synergistically to produce antinociception when DAMGO is present in equal or greater amounts than DELT and, additively, when DELT is the predominant component. Thus, unlike the periphery or spinal cord, potentiation of MOR-mediated antinociception does not entail an increase in MOR number, affinity, or coupling. Rather, the data are concordant with our proposal that potentiation results from a synergistic interaction of exogenous MOR agonist with DOR-preferring enkephalins whose levels are increased in CFA-treated rats (J Neurosci 21:2536-2545, 2001). Virtually no specific [(3)H]DELT binding nor stimulation of [(35)S]GTPgammaS binding by DELT was obtained in RVM membranes from CFA- or saline-treated rats at any time point. The mechanisms responsible for the potentiation of DELT-mediated antinociception remain to be elucidated.
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MESH Headings
- Analgesics/metabolism
- Analgesics/pharmacology
- Animals
- Cell Membrane/metabolism
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Drug Synergism
- Enkephalin, Ala(2)-MePhe(4)-Gly(5)-/metabolism
- Enkephalin, Ala(2)-MePhe(4)-Gly(5)-/pharmacology
- Freund's Adjuvant/pharmacology
- Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate)/metabolism
- Hindlimb
- Hyperalgesia/etiology
- Hyperalgesia/metabolism
- Hyperalgesia/prevention & control
- Inflammation/chemically induced
- Inflammation/complications
- Inflammation/pathology
- Male
- Medulla Oblongata/chemistry
- Medulla Oblongata/drug effects
- Medulla Oblongata/metabolism
- Oligopeptides/pharmacology
- Pain/etiology
- Pain/metabolism
- Pain/prevention & control
- Pain Measurement/methods
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Reaction Time/drug effects
- Receptors, Opioid, delta/agonists
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/agonists
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/analysis
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/metabolism
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- Kenneth T Sykes
- Department of Anesthesia, The University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Dr. 6 JCP, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Hama A, Sagen J. Altered antinociceptive efficacy of tramadol over time in rats with painful peripheral neuropathy. Eur J Pharmacol 2006; 559:32-7. [PMID: 17207479 PMCID: PMC1994250 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2006.11.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2006] [Revised: 11/16/2006] [Accepted: 11/21/2006] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Pain due to peripheral nerve injury or disease is a dynamic process, such that the mechanism that underlies it alters over time. Tramadol has been reported to be analgesic in clinical neuropathic pain, with varying levels of efficacy due to a patient population that has had neuropathic pain for a wide range of time. In order to address and examine the issue, the antinociceptive efficacy of tramadol over time was tested in rats with a chronic constriction injury (CCI) of the left sciatic nerve. Rats developed a robust hind paw hypersensitivity to innocuous mechanical stimulation ipsilateral to CCI surgery. Subcutaneous injection of tramadol in rats two weeks after CCI surgery dose-dependently attenuated mechanical hypersensitivity, which was abolished with the mu-opioid receptor antagonist naloxone but not the alpha(2)-adrenoceptor antagonist yohimbine. Systemic tramadol also attenuated mechanical hypersensitivity four weeks after CCI surgery, but the efficacy significantly diminished at this time point. In addition, the effect of tramadol at this later time point could be reduced with yohimbine as well as naloxone. These data demonstrate that the efficacy of tramadol depends in part on the duration of nerve injury-evoked nociception, and that its antinociceptive mechanism changes over time. Alteration in antinociceptive mechanism over time may explain the inconsistency in efficacy of this and other analgesic drugs in chronic pain patients.
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- Aldric Hama
- University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
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Muller A, Sherman R, Weiss J, Addison R, Carr D, Harden RN. Chapter 3 Neurophysiology of Pain from Landmine Injury. PAIN MEDICINE 2006; 7 Suppl 2:S204-8. [PMID: 17112353 DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2006.00234_5.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Andre Muller
- Centre d'Etude et Traitement de la Douleur, Hopital Civil, Strasbourg, France
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Saadé NE, Al Amin H, Chalouhi S, Baki SA, Jabbur SJ, Atweh SF. Spinal pathways involved in supraspinal modulation of neuropathic manifestations in rats. Pain 2006; 126:280-93. [PMID: 16945485 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2006.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2006] [Revised: 06/21/2006] [Accepted: 07/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Controversial results have been recently reported on the role of supraspinal centers in the modulation of nociceptive behavior in animal models of mononeuropathy. Our aim was to investigate the role of the various spinal pathways in the modulation of the neuropathic manifestations. Several groups of rats were subjected to selective spinal-tract lesions, either 2-3 weeks before or 2-3 weeks after the induction of mononeuropathy following the chronic constriction injury (CCI) or the spared nerve injury (SNI) models. Tactile and cold allodynias were assessed by Von Frey filaments and the acetone drops test, respectively. Thermal hyperalgesia was assessed by the paw withdrawal and the hot plate tests. The effects of unilateral and bilateral lesions of the dorso-lateral funiculus (DLF), the anterolateral column (ALC) or hemisection were tested over a period of 4-8 weeks. All spinal tract lesions produced reversible, but significant decrease of allodynia and hyperalgesia over a period of 1-3 weeks. The most pronounced effects were observed with bilateral lesions. The stronger attenuation was observed on thermal hyperalgesia, assessed by the paw withdrawal test, while cold allodynia was the least affected. Spinal lesions performed before the induction of neuropathy did not produce significant alterations in the temporal development of neuropathic manifestations. The present results allow the conclusion that all spinal tracts can be involved in the rostral transmission and the descending modulation of neuropathic manifestations. The recovery of symptoms following spinal lesions provides illustration on the plasticity of the neural network involved in the processing of the neuropathic syndromes.
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- Nayef E Saadé
- Department of Human Morphology, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
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Walczak JS, Pichette V, Leblond F, Desbiens K, Beaulieu P. Characterization of chronic constriction of the saphenous nerve, a model of neuropathic pain in mice showing rapid molecular and electrophysiological changes. J Neurosci Res 2006; 83:1310-22. [PMID: 16511871 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.20821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Neuropathic pain is one of the most inextricable problems encountered in clinics, because few facts are known about its etiology. Nerve injury often leads to allodynia and hyperalgesia, which are symptoms of neuropathic pain. The aim of this study was to understand some molecular and electrophysiological mechanisms of neuropathic pain after chronic constriction of the saphenous nerve (CCS) in mice. After surgery, CCS mice displayed significant allodynia and hyperalgesia, which were sensitive to acute systemic injection of morphine (4 mg/kg), gabapentin (50 mg/kg), amitriptyline (10 mg/kg), and the cannabinoid agonist WIN 55,212-2 (5 mg/kg). These behavioral changes were accompanied after surgery by an increase of c-Fos expression and by an overexpression of mu-opioid and cannabinoid CB1 and CB2 receptors in the spinal cord and the dorsal hind paw skin. In combination with the skin-nerve preparation, this model showed a decrease in functional receptive fields downstream to the injury and the apparition of A-fiber ectopic discharges. In conclusion, CCS injury induced behavioral, molecular, and electrophysiological rearrangements that might help us in better understanding the peripheral mechanisms of neuropathic pain. This model takes advantage of the possible use in the future of genetically modified mice and of an exclusively sensory nerve for a comprehensive study of peripheral mechanisms of neuropathic pain.
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MESH Headings
- Action Potentials/drug effects
- Action Potentials/physiology
- Analgesics/pharmacology
- Animals
- Chronic Disease
- Disease Models, Animal
- Femoral Nerve/injuries
- Femoral Nerve/metabolism
- Femoral Nerve/physiopathology
- Femoral Neuropathy/metabolism
- Femoral Neuropathy/physiopathology
- Hyperalgesia/drug therapy
- Hyperalgesia/metabolism
- Hyperalgesia/physiopathology
- Ligation
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Nerve Fibers, Myelinated/drug effects
- Nerve Fibers, Myelinated/metabolism
- Neuralgia/drug therapy
- Neuralgia/metabolism
- Neuralgia/physiopathology
- Pain Measurement
- Peripheral Nervous System Diseases/metabolism
- Peripheral Nervous System Diseases/physiopathology
- Physical Stimulation
- Posterior Horn Cells/metabolism
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos/drug effects
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos/metabolism
- Receptors, Cannabinoid/drug effects
- Receptors, Cannabinoid/metabolism
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/drug effects
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/metabolism
- Sensory Receptor Cells/metabolism
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Luis-Delgado OE, Barrot M, Rodeau JL, Ulery PG, Freund-Mercier MJ, Lasbennes F. The transcription factor DeltaFosB is recruited by inflammatory pain. J Neurochem 2006; 98:1423-31. [PMID: 16787404 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2006.03970.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
DeltaFosB, a stable splice variant of FosB, has been proposed to mediate persistent brain adaptation in response to several chronic perturbations, but it has not yet been considered in the context of sustained pain. Inflammatory pain induces neuronal plasticity that can result in persistent alteration of nociceptive pathways. This neuronal plasticity can partly result from changes in gene expression controlled by transcription factors. In the present study, we analyse the capacity of carrageenan-mediated inflammation to induce DeltaFosB in the spinal cord. We found that hind-paw inflammation increases FosB-like immunoreactivity in the superficial layers of rat lumbar spinal cord for at least 7 days. This induction parallels mechanical hyperalgesia and is maximal in the dorsal horn of segment L4 of the spinal cord which corresponds to the primary nociceptive afferent regions from the hind paw. We identified this FosB-like signal as DeltaFosB by comparing data obtained with antibodies raised against either an epitope present in both FosB and DeltaFosB, or the FosB C-terminal region that is deleted in DeltaFosB. The week-lasting changes in DeltaFosB highlight the interest in this protein as a molecular marker of sustained pain, and suggest a role of this transcription factor in pain-related plasticity within the spinal cord.
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- Oliva Erendira Luis-Delgado
- Nociception and Pain department, Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives, CNRS/Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
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Kohno T, Ji RR, Ito N, Allchorne AJ, Befort K, Karchewski LA, Woolf CJ. Peripheral axonal injury results in reduced mu opioid receptor pre- and post-synaptic action in the spinal cord. Pain 2006; 117:77-87. [PMID: 16098668 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2005.05.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2005] [Revised: 04/21/2005] [Accepted: 05/23/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In both the spared nerve injury (SNI) and spinal nerve ligation (SNL) rat peripheral neuropathic pain models the presynaptic inhibitory effect of the mu opioid receptor (MOR) agonist (DAMGO) on primary afferent-evoked excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs) and miniature EPSCs in superficial dorsal horn neurons is substantially reduced, but only in those spinal cord segments innervated by injured primary afferents. The two nerve injury models also reduce the postsynaptic potassium channel opening action of DAMGO on lamina II spinal cord neurons, but again only in segments receiving injured afferent input. The inhibitory action of DAMGO on ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase) activation in dorsal horn neurons is also reduced in affected segments following nerve injury. MOR expression decreases substantially in injured dorsal root ganglion neurons (DRG), while intact neighboring DRGs are unaffected. Decreased activation of MOR on injured primary afferent central terminals and the second order neurons they innervate may minimize any reduction by opioids of the spontaneous pain mediated by ectopic input from axotomized small diameter afferents. Retention of MOR expression and activity in nearby non-injured afferents will enable, however, an opioid-mediated reduction of stimulus-evoked and spontaneous pain carried by intact nociceptor afferents and we find that intrathecal DAMGO (1000 ng) reduces mechanical hypersensitivity in rats with SNL. Axotomy-induced changes in MOR may contribute to opioid- insensitive components of neuropathic pain while the absence of these changes in intact afferents may contribute to the opioid sensitive components.
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- Tatsuro Kohno
- Neural Plasticity Research Group, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 149 13th Street, Charlestown, Boston, MA 02129, USA
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Vit JP, Ohara PT, Tien DA, Fike JR, Eikmeier L, Beitz A, Wilcox GL, Jasmin L. The analgesic effect of low dose focal irradiation in a mouse model of bone cancer is associated with spinal changes in neuro-mediators of nociception. Pain 2006; 120:188-201. [PMID: 16360279 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2005.10.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2005] [Revised: 09/21/2005] [Accepted: 10/31/2005] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Despite the widespread use of radiotherapy to treat painful bone metastases, the mechanism underlying the analgesic effect of low dose ionizing radiation is unknown. Bone cancer pain is mostly associated with an inflammatory response dominated by local activation of osteoclasts and by astrogliosis in the spinal cord. We determined the effects of a 6 Gy irradiation given focally on osteolytic sarcoma cells inoculated in humeri of mice. Pain behavior was assessed using the rota-rod and the grip force test. Seven days post-irradiation (day 17 post-tumor implantation) the performance of mice markedly improved on the rotarod (non-irradiated, 67+/-16s vs irradiated, 223 +/- 22 s; P = 0.0005), and the grip force test (non-irradiated, 34 +/- 4 g vs irradiated, 55 +/- 2 g; P = 0.001). This improvement was similar to the analgesia achieved with 30 mg/kg of the cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitor ketorolac (Rota-rod, 67 +/- 16 s vs 178 +/- 35 s; P = 0.01: grip force test, 34 +/- 4 g, vs 60 +/- 5 g; P = 0.003). Following irradiation, the tumor mass and the number of osteoclasts did not decrease while the expression of two pro-inflammatory cytokines (monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha) increased. Tumor irradiation led to clear differences in the spinal cord. These include a decrease in glial activity (astrocytes and microglial cells) as well as pain mediators such as dynorphin, COX-2 and chemotactic cytokine receptor (CCR2). We conclude that the analgesic effect of low dose irradiation of bone cancer is associated with the alteration of nociceptive transmission in the central nervous system.
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- Jean-Philippe Vit
- Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0452, USA Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA Departments of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA Departments of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Dermatology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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De Alba J, Clayton NM, Collins SD, Colthup P, Chessell I, Knowles RG. GW274150, a novel and highly selective inhibitor of the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), shows analgesic effects in rat models of inflammatory and neuropathic pain. Pain 2005; 120:170-181. [PMID: 16360270 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2005.10.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2005] [Revised: 10/10/2005] [Accepted: 10/31/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO), synthesised by different isoforms of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), has been linked with the development and maintenance of nociception. We studied the role of the inducible isoform, iNOS, in two different rat pain models with an inflammatory component. iNOS was immunohistochemically detected locally in the paw 6h after Freund's Complete Adjuvant (FCA) injection, showing a plateau at 24-72 h and falling slowly in the following weeks. This correlated with the late phase of the hypersensitivity to pain revealed in the behavioural tests. A highly selective iNOS inhibitor GW274150 (1-30 mg/kg orally, 24h after FCA) suppressed the accumulation of nitrite in the inflamed paw indicating substantial iNOS inhibition. At the same time it partially reversed FCA-induced hypersensitivity to pain and edema in a dose-dependent manner. After Chronic Constriction Injury (CCI) surgery to the sciatic nerve, iNOS presence was only detected locally in the region of the nerve (inflammatory cells). GW274150 (3-30 mg/kg orally, 21 days after surgery) also reversed significantly the CCI-associated hypersensitivity to pain. No iNOS was detectable in dorsal root ganglia, spinal cord or brain in either model. This study demonstrates a role for peripherally-expressed iNOS in pain conditions with an inflammatory component and the potential value of iNOS inhibitors in such conditions.
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- Jorge De Alba
- Department of Respiratory Pharmacology, RI CEDD GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development, Medicines Research Centre, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 2NY, UK Department of Pain, Neurology+GI CEDD, GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development, New Frontiers Science Park, Third Avenue. Harlow, Essex CM19 5AW, UK Department of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, DMPK, GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development Park Road, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 ODP, UK
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Vierck CJ, Acosta-Rua AJ, Johnson RD. Bilateral chronic constriction of the sciatic nerve: a model of long-term cold hyperalgesia. THE JOURNAL OF PAIN 2005; 6:507-17. [PMID: 16084465 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2005.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2005] [Revised: 02/27/2005] [Accepted: 03/01/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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UNLABELLED Effects of chronic constriction injury (CCI) and sham surgery of both sciatic nerves were evaluated for reflex lick/guard (L/G) and operant escape responses to thermal stimulation of rats. Experiment 1 compared L/G and escape responses to 0.3 degrees C, 43 degrees C, and 47 degrees C stimulation during a period of 60 days after CCI. Experiment 2 evaluated escape from 44 degrees C, 47 degrees C, and 10 degrees C for 100 days after CCI. The rats escaped from heat or cold stimulation of the paws in a dark compartment by climbing on a thermally neutral platform in a brightly lit compartment. For reflex testing, a single compartment provided no escape option. There was no significant effect of bilateral CCI on reflex or escape responses to nociceptive heat. However, there were long-term increases in the duration of L/G responding during trials of 0.3 degrees C stimulation and in the duration of escape responding to 10 degrees C. Hyperalgesia for cold was confirmed by a preference test, with a 2-compartment shuttle box with one floor heated (45 degrees C) and the other floor cooled (10 degrees C). Occupancy of the heated compartment was significantly increased by CCI (indicating a relative aversion for cold). PERSPECTIVE For preclinical testing of treatments for allodynia/hyperalgesia after nerve injury, it is crucial to use methods of testing that are sensitive to effects on nociception throughout the neuraxis. Operant escape testing satisfies this criterion and is sensitive to bilateral CCI of rats, which avoids asymmetric postural/motor influences of unilateral CCI.
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- Charles J Vierck
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, FL 32610-0244 , USA.
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Cruz CD, Neto FL, Castro-Lopes J, McMahon SB, Cruz F. Inhibition of ERK phosphorylation decreases nociceptive behaviour in monoarthritic rats. Pain 2005; 116:411-419. [PMID: 15979799 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2005.05.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2005] [Revised: 04/22/2005] [Accepted: 05/27/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In this study we investigated the role of the activation of the extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK) in chronic inflammatory articular nociception. Monoarthritis was induced in the left ankle of Wistar rats by injection of complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA). Movement of the inflamed joint increased ERK phosphorylation in neurones of the superficial and deep ipislateral dorsal horn laminae of L3-L5 spinal cord segments. Spinal immunoreactivity to phosphoERK was more intense in animals in which the inflammation lasted longer, 7 days or more, than in rats with less time of inflammation. PhosphoERK levels were transient, since 2h after ankle stimulation spinal immunoreaction had almost disappeared. PhosphoERK immunoreactivity was not induced by movement of ankles from non-arthritic control animals, neither in monoarthritic rats in which the inflamed ankle was not stimulated. Intrathecal administration of PD 98059, an inhibitor of ERK phosphorylation, reduced nociceptive behaviour induced by the ankle bend test in monoarthritic rats. The anti-nociceptive effect of PD 98059 was more prominent and in animals with short lasting (4 days) than in animals with longer (14 days) monoarthritis. Taken together, these findings suggest that ERK phosphorylation in spinal cord neurones plays an important role in chronic inflammatory articular pain and that its inhibition may provide significant anti-nociception.
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- Célia D Cruz
- Institute of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine and IBMC, University of Porto, Alameda Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Alameda Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal Neurorestoration Group, Wolfson CARD, King's College, London, UK
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