期刊
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 234, 期 3, 页码 645-657出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4448-9
关键词
Neuroplasticity; Dental; Pain; Brainstem; Intracortical microstimulation; Glia
资金
- Faculty of Dentistry Bertha Rosenstadt Endowment Fund
- CIHR [MOP4918]
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation
- Ontario Innovation Trust
- Ministry of Technology and Innovation
- Canada Research Chair programme
We have recently shown that application of the small-fiber excitant and inflammatory irritant mustard oil (MO) to the rat molar tooth pulp can decrease face-M1 excitability, but increase the excitability of trigeminal medullary dorsal horn (MDH) nociceptive neurons and that application of the astrocytic inhibitor methionine sulfoximine (MSO) to the face-M1 or MDH can attenuate the MO-induced changes. The present study aimed to determine whether medullary MSO application could modulate the MO-induced decreased face-M1 excitability. Under ketamine general anesthesia, electromyographic (EMG) electrodes were implanted into the right anterior digastric (RAD, jaw-opening muscle) of adult male Sprague-Dawley rats. A microelectrode was positioned at a low-threshold (a parts per thousand currency sign30 mu A) site in the left face-M1. Then MO (n = 16) or control-solution (n = 16) was applied to the previously exposed molar tooth pulp, and intracortical microstimulation threshold intensities for evoking RAD EMG activities were monitored for 15 min. MSO (0.1 mM, n = 8) or phosphate-buffered saline (PBS, n = 8) was then applied to the MDH and RAD thresholds monitored every 15 min for 120 min. Statistics used ANOVA followed by post hoc Bonferroni as appropriate (p < 0.05). As compared to baseline, RAD thresholds significantly increased (i.e., decreased excitability) within 1 min (26.3 +/- A 7.9 %, p = 0.007) and peaked at 15 min following pulpal MO application (49.9 +/- A 5.7 %, p < 0.001) but not following control-solution. Following MSO (but not PBS) application to the medulla, RAD thresholds significantly decreased within 15 min (26.5 +/- A 3.0 %, p = 0.05) and at 60 min approached 6.3 +/- A 2.4 %, of baseline values (p = 0.1). These novel findings suggest that clinically related motor disturbances arising from dental pain may involve decreased face-M1 excitability that is modulated by medullary astrocytes.
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