Conditioned pain modulation and offset analgesia: Different avenues to inhibit pain.
Conditioned pain modulation and offset analgesia: Different avenues to inhibit pain.
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条件性疼痛调节和补偿镇痛:抑制疼痛的不同途径。
DOI:
10.1016/j.pain.2014.08.017
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发表时间:
2014
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7.4
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King,ChristopherD
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King,ChristopherD
The ability of the body to modulate sensory information has been a focus of a number of studies over the past several years. Experimentally, pain modulation can be assessed by a number of methods including conditioned pain modulation (CPM) and offset analgesia (OA) as highlighted in the current study by Nahman-Averbuch et al.[15]. CPM is frequently demonstrated through the reductions of a primary painful stimulus (ie, focal heat) by a second remote conditioning stimulus (ie, cold water immersion [6, 9, 17, 22, 23]). In contrast, OA is demonstrated by using a prolonged thermal pulse in which a slight reduction in the thermode temperature (ie, 1 C) is associated with a transient (10 s) reduction in pain intensity [7, 15, 16, 18, 29, 30]. Although only a small number of studies have evaluated CPM and OA in the same cohort [8, 17, 18, 20], the combined use of these inhibitory models may provide a glimpse into different characteristics underlying an individual’s inhibitory phenotype, which could have implications for future experimental and clinical research. The study by Nahman-Averbuch et al.[15] was designed to investigate differences between the psychophysical and neural correlates of CPM and OA. Using the same thermal stimulation paradigm (ie, 30s prolonged pulse at 49 C applied to the leg), the studies demonstrated reductions in the subjective ratings of heat pain during both concurrent immersion of the contralateral foot into moderately painful cold water bath (CPM induction) and following a 1 C temperature drop (OA induction)—observations that are in agreement with those of previous studies [6, 7, 9, 10, 15, 16, 23, 30]. However, the magnitude of inhibition observed in the 2 models did not correlate suggesting different mechanisms underlying inhibition. Confirming the psychophysical data, fMRI assessment of each paradigm demonstrated differences in cortical and subcortical activity. In general, widespread deactivations were observed in a number of classical pain-related areas during CPM, which was contrasted by activation in a number of areas including the brain stem region associated with the periaqueductal gray (PAG) during the OA paradigm. Based on the current study, differences in the modulation of pain are dependent on the spatial (CPM) and temporal (OA) presentation of nociceptive information, which in turn results in a differential pattern of neurobiological activity in areas involved in pain perception and modulation. More importantly, the study adds to the discussion about the methods and implications of different inhibitory mechanisms (CPM vs OA) and within different inhibitory paradigms (variations of CPM).