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Volume 89, Issue 1, Pages 81-88Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(00)00346-8
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5-HT3 receptor; inflammation; formalin; carrageenan; nociception; spinal cord
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The involvement of 5-HT3 receptor mediated modulation of formalin and carrageenan induced inflammatory transmission was investigated. The effects of the selective 5-HT3 receptor antagonist ondansetron on the electrically evoked responses of dorsal horn neurones in normal animals were compared to those following carrageenan. The effect of pre-treatment on the formalin response was also studied. Ondansetron had no significant effect on the electrically evoked responses of dorsal horn neurones in normal animals or following carrageenan induced inflammation, but significantly inhibited both phases of the formalin response. Our results suggest that 5-HT3 receptors in the spinal cord have no significant role under normal conditions. However, during formalin (but not carrageenan) induced inflammation this system is activated, maintaining the response of nociceptive spinal neurones to peripheral formalin. (C) 2000 international Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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