Administration of endocannabinoids prevents a referred hyperalgesia associated with inflammation of the urinary bladder
Administration of endocannabinoids prevents a referred hyperalgesia associated with inflammation of the urinary bladder
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DOI:
10.1097/00000542-200103000-00023
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发表时间:
2001-03-01
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影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Rice, ASC
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作者:
Farquhar-Smith, WP;Rice, ASC
Background: Referred hyperalgesia to a somatopically appropriate superficial site is a cardinal symptom of visceral inflammatory pain and has been demonstrated after turpentine-induced urinary bladder inflammation in the rat. The authors examined the effect of the endocannabinoids anandamide and palmitoylethanolamide oil the referred hyperalgesia associated with this model.Methods After measurement of baseline limb withdrawal latencies to a noxious heat stimulus, the bladders of 50 female Wistar rats mere inflamed by intravesical administration of 0.5 ml 50% turpentine. Ten or 25 mg/kg of anandamide or palmitoylethanolamide or vehicle were administered immediately before introduction of turpentine, Antagonists to both the cannabinoid CB1 and CB2 receptors mere coadministered with the higher dose of endocannabinoids. Latencies were recorded 2, 4, 6, 8, and 24 h after removal of turpentine. The difference between fore limb and hind limb withdrawal latencies was plotted against time, and areas under these curves were compared.Results: Inflammation of the urinary bladder was associated with a relative thermal hyperalgesia referred to the hind limb. Anandamide and palmitoylethanolamide attenuated this referred;hyperalgesia at doses of 10 and 25 mg/kg, The CB, receptor antagonist SR141716A reduced the antihyperalgesic effect of anandamide, but the CB, antagonist SR144528 did not. Coadministration of SR141716A with palmitoylethatlolamide did not affect the antihyperalgesic effect but was reduced by SR144528.Conclusions: Anandamide (via CB1 receptors) and palmitoylethanolamide (putatively via CB, receptors) attenuated a referred hyperalgesia in a dose-dependent fashion. CB, and CB, receptors are strategically situated to influence the nerve growth factor-driven referred hyperalgesia associated with inflammation of the urinary bladder. These data implicate cannabinoids as a novel treatment for vesical pain,