期刊
BRAIN
卷 144, 期 -, 页码 1711-1726出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awab086
关键词
pain; cold allodynia; neuropathic pain; potassium channels; sodium channels
资金
- Wellcome Trust [200183/Z/15/Z]
- MRC
- Wolfson Foundation
- Versus Arthritis [20200]
- Wellcome Trust [200183/Z/15/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
Neuropathic pain leads to innocuous cooling being perceived as excruciating pain, yet the cell and molecular basis of this cold allodynia remains poorly understood. Research has found that in neuropathic pain states, normally silent large diameter cold-sensing neurons become sensitive to cooling, with many of them responding to noxious mechanical stimuli.
Patients with neuropathic pain often experience innocuous cooling as excruciating pain. The cell and molecular basis of this cold allodynia is little understood. We used in vivo calcium imaging of sensory ganglia to investigate how the activity of peripheral cold-sensing neurons was altered in three mouse models of neuropathic pain: oxaliplatin-induced neuropathy, partial sciatic nerve ligation, and ciguatera poisoning. In control mice, cold-sensing neurons were few in number and small in size. In neuropathic animals with cold allodynia, a set of normally silent large diameter neurons became sensitive to cooling. Many of these silent cold-sensing neurons responded to noxious mechanical stimuli and expressed the nociceptor markers Na(v)1.8 and CGRP alpha. Ablating neurons expressing Na(v)1.8 resulted in diminished cold allodynia. The silent cold-sensing neurons could also be activated by cooling in control mice through blockade of K(v)1 voltage-gated potassium channels. Thus, silent cold-sensing neurons are unmasked in diverse neuropathic pain states and cold allodynia results from peripheral sensitization caused by altered nociceptor excitability.
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