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PAIN
卷 145, 期 1-2, 页码 184-195出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.06.012
关键词
Diabetes; Peripheral neuropathy; Pain; Low-voltage-activated; Calcium; Hyperalgesia; Allodynia
资金
- Department of Anesthesiology at UVA
Earlier, we showed that streptozocin (STZ)-induced type 1 diabetes in rats leads to the development of painful peripheral diabetic neuropathy (PDN) manifested as thermal hyperalgesia and mechanical alldynia accompanied by significant enhancement of T-type calcium currents (T-currents) and celluar excitability in medium-sized dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons. Here, we studied the in vivo and in vitro effects of gene-silencing therapy specific for the Ca(V)3.2 isoform of T-channels, on thermal and mechanical hypersensitivities, and T-current expression in small- and medium-sized DRG neurons of STZ-treated rats. We found that silencing of the T-channel Ca(V)3.2 isoform using antisense oligonucleotides, had a profound and selective anti-hyperalgesic effect in diabetic rats and is accompanied by significant clown-regulation of T-currents in DRG neurons. Anti-hyperalgesic effects of Ca(V)3.2 antisense oligonucleotides in diabetic rats were similar in models of rapid and slow onset of hyperglycemia following intravenous and intraperitoneal injections of STZ, respectively. Furthermore, treatments of diabetic rats with daily insulin injections reversed T-current alterations in DRG neurons in parallel with reversal of thermal and mechanical hypersensitivities in vivo. This confirms that Ca(V)3.2 T-channels, important signal amplifiers in peripheral sensory neurons, may contribute to the cellular hyperexcitability that ultimately leads to the development of painful PDN. (C) 2009 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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