Journal
PAIN
Volume 141, Issue 3, Pages 283-291Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.12.006
Keywords
Opioids; Pain; Neuropathy; Inflammation; Spinal cord; Dorsal root ganglia
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- Polish MNSW Scientific Network
- Ministry of Sciences Research and Information Technology (Warszawa, Poland)
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We investigated the efficacy of local intraplantar (i.pl.) injection of peptide and non-peptide mu-, delta- and kappa-opioid receptor agonists in rat models of inflammatory and neuropathic pain. Locally applied agonists dose-dependently reduced formalin-induced flinching of the inflamed paw and induced antiallodynic and antihyperalgesic effects in sciatic nerve ligation-induced neuropathic pain. These effects were mediated by peripheral opioid receptors localized at the side of tissue/nerve injury, as was demonstrated by selective and non-selective opioid receptors antagonists. The ED50 dose range of mu- and kappa-agonists required to induce analgesia in neuropathy was much higher than the ED50 for inflammation; moreover, only delta-agonists were effective in the same dose range in both pain models. Additionally, effective antin-ociception was achieved at a lower dose of peptide, compared to non-peptide, opioids. Such findings support the use of the peripheral administration of opioid peptides, especially delta-agonists, in treating chronic pain. Furthermore, in order to assess whether adaptations in the expression of opioid genes could underlie the clinical observation of reduced opioid effectiveness in neuropathic pain, we analyzed the abundance of opioid transcripts in the spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia (DRG) during the neuropathy and inflammation. Nerve injury clown-regulated mRNA for all types of opioid receptors in the DRG, which is predicted to decrease in the synthesis of opioid receptors to possibly account for the reduced effectiveness of locally administered opioids in neuropathy. The obtained results differentiate inflammatory and neuropathic pain and provide a novel insight into the peripheral effectiveness of opioids in both types of pain. (C) 2008 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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