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NEUROREPORT
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 399-403Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200102120-00042
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carrageenan; hyperalgesia; nociceptive circuitry; pain; withdrawal reflexes
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We examined the long-term effects of a short-lasting (similar to 24 h) inflammatory insult generated by injections of 0.25% carrageenan (1 mul/g) into the hindpaws of newborn (PO) rat pups. At P60 animals which experienced this early inflammatory insult showed significant alterations in the withdrawal responses to noxious stimulation of the affected paws. Furthermore, in the absence of ongoing inflammation, the withdrawal latencies to heat stimulation and withdrawal thresholds to mechanical stimulation were increased by such experience. In the presence of ongoing CPA-induced inflammation, however, the same early experience decreased these parameters of response to noxious stimulation. These data suggest that early inflammatory insult may differentially affect the aspects-of nociceptive circuitry involved in transient pain sensitivity and in inflammation-induced hyperalgesia. NeuroReport 12:399-403 (C) 2001 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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