Visceral, inflammatory and neuropathic pain in glycine receptor alpha 3-deficient mice
Visceral, inflammatory and neuropathic pain in glycine receptor alpha 3-deficient mice
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DOI:
10.1097/00001756-200512190-00011
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发表时间:
2005-12-19
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影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Zimmer, A
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作者:
Rácz, D;Schütz, B;Zimmer, A
The alpha 3-subunit of strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors is an important modulator of the pain-sensitizing effects of spinal prostaglandin prostaglandin E-2. Mice deficient for alpha 3-subunit of strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors lack the prostaglandin E-2-induced inhibition of glycinergic neurotransmission and recover faster from inflammation-induced hyperalgesia. It, however, remains unclear whether alpha 3-subunit of strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors plays a role in other pain models involving prostaglandin synthesis, such as chemically induced pain or neuropathic pain. In this paper, we show a reduction of acetic acid-induced writhing responses in the absence of of alpha 3-subunit of strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors, but no changes in formalin-induced pain. Furthermore, alpha 3-subunit of strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors-deficient mice develop normal thermal hyperalgesia and tactile allodynia. Thus, alpha 3-subunit of strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors is involved in the modulation of moderate inflammatory acetic acid-induced pain responses, but neither in formal in-induced pain nor in neuropathic pain. NeuroReport 16:2025-2028 (c) 2005 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.