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ELIFE
卷 10, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELIFE SCIENCES PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.66446
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases [P30-DK020572, RO1-DK103808]
- National Institute of Mental Health [R01-111604]
- National Institute on Drug Abuse [R01-040621]
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [R01-072968]
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [R01-085171]
Functional imaging has shown that lateral hypothalamic parvalbumin-positive glutamatergic neurons play a crucial role in nociceptive processing. Modulating these neurons can alter pain-related behaviors and unpleasantness of noxious stimuli. Additionally, activating these neurons has been found to have synergistic antinociceptive effects with morphine and can restore morphine antinociception after developing tolerance.
Understanding how neuronal circuits control nociceptive processing will advance the search for novel analgesics. We use functional imaging to demonstrate that lateral hypothalamic parvalbumin-positive (LHPV) glutamatergic neurons respond to acute thermal stimuli and a persistent inflammatory irritant. Moreover, their chemogenetic modulation alters both pain-related behavioral adaptations and the unpleasantness of a noxious stimulus. In two models of persistent pain, optogenetic activation of LHPV neurons or their ventrolateral periaqueductal gray area (vlPAG) axonal projections attenuates nociception, and neuroanatomical tracing reveals that LHPV neurons preferentially target glutamatergic over GABAergic neurons in the vlPAG. By contrast, LHPV projections to the lateral habenula regulate aversion but not nociception. Finally, we find that LHPV activation evokes additive to synergistic antinociceptive interactions with morphine and restores morphine antinociception following the development of morphine tolerance. Our findings identify LHPV neurons as a lateral hypothalamic cell type involved in nociception and demonstrate their potential as a target for analgesia.
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