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TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH
卷 234, 期 -, 页码 31-42出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2021.02.002
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse [R01DA043774]
This study examines the pliability of nociception and opioid antinociception in females over the reproductive cycle. The findings suggest that spinal estrogenic signaling plays a crucial role in coordinating functionality between pronociception and antinociception. Additionally, the pharmacological manipulation of intrinsic opioid analgesic/anti-allodynic systems has translational relevance in pain management strategies.
Nociception and opioid antinociception in females are pliable processes, varying qualitatively and quantitatively over the reproductive cycle. Spinal estrogenic signaling via membrane estrogen receptors (mERs), in combination with multiple other signaling molecules [spinal dynorphin, kappa-opioid receptors (KOR), glutamate and metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 (mGluR(1))], appears to function as a master coordinator, parsing functionality between pronociception and antinociception. This provides a window into pharmacologically accessing intrinsic opioid analgesic/anti-allodynic systems. In diestrus, membrane estrogen receptor alpha (mERa) signals via mGluR(1) to suppress spinal endomorphin 2 (EM2) analgesia. Strikingly, in the absence of exogenous opioids, interfering with this suppression in a chronic pain model elicits opioid anti-allodynia, revealing contributions of endogenous opioid(s). In proestrus, robust spinal EM2 analgesia is manifest but this requires spinal dynorphin/KOR and glutamate-activated mGluR(1). Furthermore, spinal mGluR(1) blockade in a proestrus chronic pain animal (eliminating spinal EM2 analgesia) exacerbates mechanical allodynia, revealing tempering by endogenous opioid(s). A complex containing mu-opioid receptor, KOR, aromatase, mGluRs, and mERa are foundational to eliciting endogenous opioid anti-allodynia. Aromatase-mERa oligomers are also plentiful, in a central nervous system region-specific fashion. These can be independently regulated and allow estrogens to act intracellularly within the same signaling complex in which they are synthesized, explaining asynchronous relationships between circulating estrogens and central nervous system estrogen functionalities. Observations with EM2 highlight the translational relevance of extensively characterizing exogenous responsiveness to endogenous opioids and the neuronal circuits that mediate them along with the multiplicity of estrogenic systems that concomitantly function in phase and out-of-phase with the reproductive cycle.
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