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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirotake Ishida ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Ruben Gomez ◽  
John Shannonhouse ◽  
Hyeonwi Son ◽  
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After surgeries, especially thoracotomy incision, patients develop unbearable pain. Opioids are used for reducing pain but often cause serious side effects. Previously, we found that capsaicin pretreatment of the incision area alleviated spontaneous and thermal pain in a postoperative pain animal model. In the present study, we aimed to monitor primary sensory neuron Ca2+ activity in in vivo dorsal root ganglia (DRG) in a postoperative pain model using Pirt-GCaMP3 treated with capsaicin or controls. Intraplantar injection of capsaicin (0.05%) alleviated spontaneous, mechanical, and thermal postoperative pain. The Ca2+ response in in vivo DRG and in in situ spinal cord was significantly enhanced in the ipsilateral side compared to contralateral side or naive control. Primary sensory nerve fiber length was significantly decreased in the incision skin area in capsaicin-pretreated animals detected by immunohistochemistry and placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) staining. Thus, capsaicin pretreatment alleviates postoperative pain by suppressing Ca2+ response due to degeneration of primary sensory nerve fibers in the skin.


Author(s):  
David Diaz Vera ◽  
Jonathan R. Soucy ◽  
Audrey Lee ◽  
Ryan A. Koppes ◽  
Abigail N. Koppes

2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (11) ◽  
pp. 785-802
Author(s):  
Vera B. Plakhova ◽  
Valentina A. Penniyaynen ◽  
Ilia V. Rogachevskii ◽  
Svetlana A. Podzorova ◽  
Maksim M. Khalisov ◽  
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In the primary sensory neuron, ouabain activates the dual mechanism that modulates the functional activity of NaV1.8 channels. Ouabain at endogenous concentrations (EO) triggers two different signaling cascades, in which the Na,K-ATPase/Src complex is the EO target and the signal transducer. The fast EO effect is based on modulation of the NaV1.8 channel activation gating device. EO triggers the tangential signaling cascade along the neuron membrane from Na,K-ATPase to the NaV1.8 channel. It evokes a decrease in effective charge transfer of the NaV1.8 channel activation gating device. Intracellular application of PP2, an inhibitor of Src kinase, completely eliminated the effect of EO, thus indicating the absence of direct EO binding to the NaV1.8 channel. The delayed EO effect probably controls the density of NaV1.8 channels in the neuron membrane. EO triggers the downstream signaling cascade to the neuron genome, which should result in a delayed decrease in the NaV1.8 channels’ density. PKC and p38 MAPK are involved in this pathway. Identification of the dual mechanism of the strong EO effect on NaV1.8 channels makes it possible to suggest that application of EO to the primary sensory neuron membrane should result in a potent antinociceptive effect at the organismal level.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 174480692096380
Author(s):  
Seung Min Shin ◽  
Yongsong Cai ◽  
Brandon Itson-Zoske ◽  
Chensheng Qiu ◽  
Xu Hao ◽  
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The monosodium iodoacetate knee osteoarthritis model has been widely used for the evaluation of osteoarthritis pain, but the pathogenesis of associated chronic pain is not fully understood. The T-type calcium channel 3.2 (CaV3.2) is abundantly expressed in the primary sensory neurons, in which it regulates neuronal excitability at both the somata and peripheral terminals and facilitates spontaneous neurotransmitter release at the spinal terminals. In this study, we investigated the involvement of primary sensory neuron-CaV3.2 activation in monosodium iodoacetate osteoarthritis pain. Knee joint osteoarthritis pain was induced by intra-articular injection of monosodium iodoacetate (2 mg) in rats, and sensory behavior was evaluated for 35 days. At that time, knee joint structural histology, primary sensory neuron injury, and inflammatory gliosis in lumbar dorsal root ganglia, and spinal dorsal horn were examined. Primary sensory neuron-T-type calcium channel current by patch-clamp recording and CaV3.2 expression by immunohistochemistry and immunoblots were determined. In a subset of animals, pain relief by CaV3.2 inhibition after delivery of CaV3.2 inhibitor TTA-P2 into sciatic nerve was investigated. Knee injection of monosodium iodoacetate resulted in osteoarthritis histopathology, weight-bearing asymmetry, sensory hypersensitivity of the ipsilateral hindpaw, and inflammatory gliosis in the ipsilateral dorsal root ganglia, sciatic nerve, and spinal dorsal horn. Neuronal injury marker ATF-3 was extensively upregulated in primary sensory neurons, suggesting that neuronal damage was beyond merely knee-innervating primary sensory neurons. T-type current in dissociated primary sensory neurons from lumbar dorsal root ganglia of monosodium iodoacetate rats was significantly increased, and CaV3.2 protein levels in the dorsal root ganglia and spinal dorsal horn ipsilateral to monosodium iodoacetate by immunoblots were significantly increased, compared to controls. Perineural application of TTA-P2 into the ipsilateral sciatic nerve alleviated mechanical hypersensitivity and weight-bearing asymmetry in monosodium iodoacetate osteoarthritis rats. Overall, our findings demonstrate an elevated CaV3.2 expression and enhanced function of primary sensory neuron-T channels in the monosodium iodoacetate osteoarthritis pain. Further study is needed to delineate the importance of dysfunctional primary sensory neuron-CaV3.2 in osteoarthritis pain.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1S) ◽  
pp. 44-45
Author(s):  
V A Penniyaynen ◽  
S A Podzorova ◽  
S G Terekhin ◽  
B V Krylov ◽  
V B Plakhova

The aim of the study was to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of the interconnection of the GABA-ergic and nociceptive systems at the level of the peripheral division of the CNS. The data obtained indicate that GABA does not affect the activation gating device of the NaV1.8 channel of the primary sensory neuron responsible for coding pain signals.This agent in a wide range of concentrations also does not affect the growth of neurites of sensory neurons of embryonic nervous tissue. These results confirm our assumption, expressed earlier that the asynaptic membrane of the primary nociceptive neuron is not under the control of the GABA-ergic system.


Gene Therapy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 308-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongwei Yu ◽  
Seung Min Shin ◽  
Hongfei Xiang ◽  
Dongman Chao ◽  
Yongsong Cai ◽  
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Pancreatology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. S35
Author(s):  
Emese Réka Bálint ◽  
Zsolt Balla ◽  
Lóránd Kiss ◽  
Andrea Molnár ◽  
Chloé Marsollier ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 174480691771704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongfei Xiang ◽  
Zhen Liu ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
Hao Xu ◽  
Christopher Roberts ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1877-1888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manouela V Valtcheva ◽  
Bryan A Copits ◽  
Steve Davidson ◽  
Tayler D Sheahan ◽  
Melanie Y Pullen ◽  
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