期刊
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 233, 期 5, 页码 1377-1389出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4212-1
关键词
tDCS; Pain; Descending systems; Model; Transcranial stimulation; Chronic stress
资金
- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development-CNPq
- Foundation of Support of Research of Rio Grande do Sul, FAPERGS/PRONEM [11/2050]
- Graduate Research Group (GPPG) of Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre-HCPA [100381]
- Committee for the Development of Higher Education Personnel-CAPES
- [Doc-Fix FAPERGS/CAPES/09-2012]
Physiological and exogenous factors are able to adjust sensory processing by modulating activity at different levels of the nervous system hierarchy. Accordingly, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) may use top-down mechanisms to control the access for incoming information along the neuroaxis. To test the hypothesis that brain activation induced by tCDS is able to initiate top-down modulation and that chronic stress disrupts this effect, 60-day-old male Wistar rats (n = 78) were divided into control; control + tDCS; control + sham-tDCS; stress; stress + tDCS; and stress + sham-tDCS. Chronic stress was induced using a restraint stress model for 11 weeks, and then, the treatment was applied over 8 days. BDNF levels were used to assess neuronal activity at spinal cord, brainstem, and hippocampus. Mechanical pain threshold was assessed by von Frey test immediately and 24 h after the last tDCS-intervention. tDCS was able to decrease BDNF levels in the structures involved in the descending systems (spinal cord and brainstem) only in unstressed animals. The treatment was able to reverse the stress-induced allodynia and to increase the pain threshold in unstressed animals. Furthermore, there was an inverse relation between pain sensitivity and spinal cord BDNF levels. Accordingly, we propose the addition of descending systems in the current brain electrical modulation model.
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