Ultraviolet-B-induced mechanical hyperalgesia: A role for peripheral sensitisation
Ultraviolet-B-induced mechanical hyperalgesia: A role for peripheral sensitisation
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10.1016/j.pain.2010.04.018
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发表时间:
2010-07-01
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7.4
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McMahon, Stephen B.
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Bishop, Thomas;Marchand, Fabien;McMahon, Stephen B.
Ultraviolet (UV) induced cutaneous inflammation is emerging as a model of pain with a novel sensory phenotype. A UVB dose of 1000 mJ/cm(2) produces a highly significant thermal and mechanical hypersensitivity. Here we examined the properties and mechanisms of such hyperalgesia in rats. Significantly, the mechanical hyperalgesia (with similar to 60% change in withdrawal thresholds) was restricted to the lesion site with no changes in mechanical threshold in adjacent non-irradiated skin (i.e. no secondary hypersensitivity), suggesting a peripheral mechanism. Consistent with this, we found that primary mechanical hypersensitivity showed no significant changes after intrathecal treatment with 10 mu g of the NMDA-receptor antagonist MK-801. Using an in vitro skin-nerve preparation, in the presence and absence of UVB-inflammation, suprathreshold responses to skin displacement stimuli of 6-768 mu m of 103 peripheral nociceptors were recorded. At the peak of UVB-induced hyperalgesia we observed that mechanical response properties of Ad-nociceptors recorded from UVB-inflamed skin (n = 19) were significantly diminished, by similar to 50%, compared to those recorded from naive skin (n = 13). The mechanical response properties of heat-sensitive C-nociceptors were unchanged while their heat responses were significantly increased, by similar to 75%, in UVB-inflamed (n = 26) compared to naive skin (n = 12). Heat-insensitive C-nociceptors, however, demonstrated significantly enhanced (by similar to 60%) response properties to mechanical stimulation in UVB-inflamed (n = 21) compared to naive skin (n = 12). Notably alteration in mechanical responses of Ad-and heat-insensitive C-nociceptors were particular to stronger stimuli. Spontaneous activity was not induced by this dose of UVB. We conclude that UVB-induced mechanical hyperalgesia may be explained by a net shift in peripheral nociceptor response properties. (C) 2010 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.