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PAIN
Volume 159, Issue 5, Pages 864-875Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001155
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Hyperalgesic priming; Hyperalgesia; EGFR; MOR; Chronic pain
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [NS084545]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R01NS085831, R01NS084545] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Repeated stimulation of mu-opioid receptors (MORs), by an MOR-selective agonist DAMGO induces type II priming, a form of nociceptor neuroplasticity, which has 2 components: opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH) and prolongation of prostaglandin-E-2 (PGE(2))-induced hyperalgesia. We report that intrathecal antisense knockdown of the MOR in nociceptors, prevented the induction of both components of type II priming. Type II priming was also eliminated by SSP-saporin, which destroys the peptidergic class of nociceptors. Because the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) participates in MOR signaling, we tested its role in type II priming. The EGFR inhibitor, tyrphostin AG 1478, prevented the induction of prolonged PGE(2)-induced hyperalgesia, but not OIH, when tested out to 30 days after DAMGO. However, even when repeatedly injected, an EGFR agonist did not induce hyperalgesia or priming. A phosphopeptide, which blocks the interaction of Src, focal adhesion kinase (FAK), and EGFR, also prevented DAMGO-induced prolongation of PGE(2) hyperalgesia, but only partially attenuated the induction of OIH. Inhibitors of Src and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) also only attenuated OIH. Inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinase, which cleaves EGF from membrane protein, markedly attenuated the expression, but did not prevent the induction, of prolongation of PGE(2) hyperalgesia. Thus, although the induction of prolongation of PGE(2)-induced hyperalgesia at the peripheral terminal of peptidergic nociceptor is dependent on Src, FAK, EGFR, and MAPK signaling, Src, FAK, and MAPK signaling is only partially involved in the induction of OIH.
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