Mechanism of prostatic acid phosphatase-mediated analgesia

前列腺酸性磷酸酶介导的镇痛机制

• 批准号: 8021915
• 负责人: Nathaniel A Sowa
• 金额: $ 0.17万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8021915
• 关键词: Absence of pain sensation; Address; Adenosine; Adenosine Monophosphate; Adult; Adverse effects; Agonist; Analgesics; Animals; Behavioral; Biochemical; Biological Assay; Calcium; Cannabinoids; Cells; Chronic inflammatory pain; Economic Burden; Event; Fibroblasts; G-Protein-Coupled Receptors; Generations; Genes; Genetic; In Vitro; Incubated; Injection of therapeutic agent; Intrathecal Injections; Knowledge; Lead; Life; Ligands; Lysophospholipids; Measures; Mediating; Medical; Modeling; Molecular Biology; Mus; Nervous system structure; Neurons; Nociception; Pain; Pathologic; Pharmacology; Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases; Production; Productivity; Property; Protein Dephosphorylation; Proteins; Purinergic P1 Receptors; Quality of life; Reporting; Role; Signal Pathway; Signal Transduction; Societies; Spinal Cord; Spinal Ganglia; Tactile; Testing; Thermal Hyperalgesias; Time; United States; Work; allodynia; base; chronic pain; in vivo; inflammatory pain; lost work time; lysophosphatidic acid; neuronal excitability; neurotransmission; novel strategies; novel therapeutic intervention; novel therapeutics; overexpression; prostatic fraction Acid phosphatase isoenzyme; public health relevance; receptor; receptor coupling; response; transmission process

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Chronic pain is a common medical complaint in the United States, reported by over 25% of adults. It is also very costly to treat, and results in additional economic burdens to society through lost work-time and productivity. Current treatments for chronic pain are often ineffective and have dangerous side-effects. Further understanding of pain transmission is needed to allow for new therapeutic strategies to treat this debilitating condition. My long term objectives are to increase our understanding of pain transmission within the nervous system and to provide a potentially novel therapeutic approach for treating pain. We have recently identified that a phosphatase called Prostatic Acid Phosphatase (PAP) is present in pain-sensing neurons. Injection of a soluble form of this protein into the spinal cord results in long-lasting analgesia, while genetic elimination of the protein results in enhanced inflammatory pain responses. The mechanisms of PAPmediated analgesia are unknown, although PAP can produce the analgesic compounds adenosine and cannabinoids in biochemical assays. The specific aims of this proposal are to: first, test if PAP reduces cell signaling in vitro by producing analgesic molecules; second, to test if PAP suppresses pain in vivo by producing analgesic molecules; and third, test if PAP-mediated analgesia is due to decreased neuronal excitability in pain-sensing neurons. I will use a combination of molecular biology and pharmacology to study the activity of PAP in vitro and in live animals. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Understanding the mechanism of PAP-mediated analgesia will provide opportunities to develop novel approaches to treat chronic pain.

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