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PAIN
Volume 148, Issue 2, Pages 188-197Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.07.001
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Pain; Fatigue; Sex; Hyperalgesia; Exercise
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- [AR053509]
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Since many people with chronic fatigue present with pain and many people with chronic pain present with fatigue, we tested if fatigue would enhance the response to pain in male and female mice. We further tested for the activation of brainstem nuclei by the fatigue task using c-fos as a marker. Fatigue was induced by having mice spontaneously run in running wheel for 2 h. Carrageenan (0.03%) was injected into the gastrocnemius muscle either 2 h before or 2 h after the fatigue task. The mechanical sensitivity of the paw (von Frey. laments), muscle (tweezers), grip force and running wheel activity was assessed before and 24 h after injection of carrageenan. Both male and female mice that performed the fatigue task, either before or after intramuscular injection of carrageenan, showed an enhanced mechanical sensitivity of the paw, but not the muscle. Ovariectomized mice showed a similar response to male mice. There was a decrease in running wheel activity after carrageenan injection, but no change in grip force suggesting that mice had no deficit in motor performance induced by the carrageenan. C-fos expression was observed in the nucleus raphe pallidus, obscurus, and magnus after the fatigue task suggesting an increased activity in the raphe nuclei in response to the fatigue task. Therefore, widespread hyperalgesia is enhanced by the fatigue response but not hyperalgesia at the site of insult. We suggest that this effect is sex-dependent and involves mechanisms in the brainstem to result in an enhanced hyperalgesia. (C) 2009 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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