期刊
NEUROPHARMACOLOGY
卷 182, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2020.108407
关键词
GABAA receptor Positive allosteric modulator; TSPO ligand; Pain comorbidities; Neuropathic pain; Neurosteroids
资金
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Universite de Strasbourg
- Region Alsace
- FHU Neurogenycs
- French National Research Agency (ANR) (EURIDOL Graduate School of Pain) [ANR-17-EURE-0022]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-17-EURE-0022] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
Neuropathic pain is often accompanied by anxiety and major depressive disorders, impacting the patient experience significantly. Etifoxine, a non-benzodiazepine anxiolytic, has shown promising potential in relieving both sensory and emotional components of neuropathic pain through GABAergic mechanisms. The therapeutic effects of Etifoxine include sustained relief from mechanical allodynia, alleviation of ongoing pain aversiveness, and mitigation of anxiodepressive-like consequences of neuropathic pain. Additionally, Etifoxine's neuroprotective and analgesic actions have been demonstrated in preclinical studies.
Neuropathic pain is frequently associated with anxiety and major depressive disorders, which considerably impact the overall patient experience. Favoring GABAergic inhibition through the pain matrix has emerged as a promising strategy to restore proper processing of nociceptive and affective information in neuropathic pain states. In this context, the non-benzodiazepine anxiolytic etifoxine (EFX), known to amplify GABAergic inhibition through positive modulation of GABA(A) receptors and neurosteroidogenesis, presents several advantages. Therefore, we sought to investigate the preclinical therapeutic potential of EFX on the somatosensory and affective components of neuropathic pain. Here, we used a murine model in which neuropathic pain was induced by the implantation of a compressive cuff around the sciatic nerve (mononeuropathy). We showed that the intraperitoneal EFX treatment for five consecutive days (50 mg/kg) relieved mechanical allodynia in a sustained manner. Besides its effect on evoked mechanical hypersensitivity, EFX also alleviated aversiveness of ongoing pain as well as anxiodepressive-like consequences of neuropathic pain following cuff-induced mononeuropathy. This effect was also seen 12 weeks after induction of the neuropathy when allodynia was no longer present. Analgesic and neuroprotective actions of EFX were also seen by the absence of neuropathic pain symptoms if a second sciatic nerve constriction injury was applied to the contralateral hindpaw. Mass spectrometry analysis revealed a normalization of brainstem serotonin levels in EFX-treated animals and an increase in norepinephrine. This study suggests that EFX presents promising therapeutic potential for the relief of both somatosensory and affective consequences of neuropathic pain, a beneficial effect that is likely to involve monoamine descending controls.
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