Journal
BIOMEDICINE & PHARMACOTHERAPY
Volume 144, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2021.112272
Keywords
Interleukin-1 beta; Sigma-1 receptor; Astrocytes; Phosphorylation; Neuropathic pain
Funding
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korea Government [2020R1A2C1102540]
- BK21 Four Future Veterinary Medicine Leading Education & Research Center at Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
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Administration of IL-1 beta during the early phase of nerve injury can reduce the expression of Sig-1R in spinal astrocytes, decrease pGluN1 expression, and suppress the development of mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia, producing an analgesic effect on neuropathic pain.
The sigma-1 receptor (Sig-1R) plays an important role in spinal pain transmission by increasing phosphorylation of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor GluN1 subunit (pGluN1). As a result Sig-1R has been suggested as a novel therapeutic target for prevention of chronic pain. Here we investigated whether interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) modulates the expression of the Sig-1R in spinal astrocytes during the early phase of nerve injury, and whether this modulation affects spinal pGluN1 expression and the development of neuropathic pain following chronic constriction injury (CCI) of the sciatic nerve. Repeated intrathecal (i.t.) administration of IL-1 beta from days 0-3 post-surgery significantly reduced the increased pGluN1 expression at the Ser896 and Ser897 sites in the ipsilateral spinal cord, as well as, the development of mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia in the ipsilateral hind paw of CCI mice, which were restored by co-administration of IL-1 receptor antagonist with IL-1 beta. Sciatic nerve injury increased the expression of Sig-1R in astrocytes of the ipsilateral spinal cord, and this increase was suppressed by i.t. administration of IL-1 beta. Agonistic stimulation of the Sig-1R with PRE084 restored pGluN1 expression and the development of mechanical allodynia that were originally suppressed by IL-1 beta in CCI mice. Collectively these results demonstrate that IL-1 beta administration during the induction phase of neuropathic pain produces an analgesic effect on neuropathic pain development by controlling the expression of Sig-1R in spinal astrocytes.
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