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A Critical Involvement of Glutamatergic Neurons in the Anterior Insular Cortex for Subdiaphragmatic Vagotomy-induced Analgesia

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EXPERIMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY
卷 32, 期 2, 页码 68-82

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KOREAN SOC BRAIN & NEURAL SCIENCE, KOREAN SOC NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE
DOI: 10.5607/en23002

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Subdiaphragmatic vagotomy (SDV); Acute inflammatory pain; Anterior insular cortex; Glutamatergic neuron

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Analyzing the Fos expression in the brain, we found that subdiaphragmatic vagotomy (SDV) can induce analgesic effect in acute inflammatory pain by decreasing the activity of glutamatergic neurons in the anterior insular cortex (aIC). This finding suggests that targeting glutamatergic neurons in the aIC could be an important therapeutic approach for inflammatory pain.
Subdiaphragmatic vagotomy (SDV) is known to produce analgesic effect in various pain conditions including not only visceral pain but also so-matic pain. We aimed to determine brain mechanisms by which SDV induces analgesic effect in somatic pain condition by using formalin-induced acute inflammatory pain model. We identified brain regions that mediate SDV-induced analgesic effect on acute inflammatory pain by analyzing Fos expression in the whole brain. We found that c-Fos expression was specifically increased in the anterior insular cortex (aIC) among subregions of the insular cortex in acute inflammatory pain, which was reversed by SDV. These results were not mimicked in female mice, indicating sexual dimorphism in SDV-induced analgesia. SDV decreased c-Fos expressions more preferentially in glutamatergic neurons rather than GABAergic neurons in the aIC, and pharmacological activation of glutamatergic neurons with NMDA in the aIC inhibited SDV-induced analgesic effect. Fur-thermore, chemogenetic activation of glutamatergic neurons in the aIC reversed SDV-induced analgesia. Taken together, our results suggest that the decrease in the neuronal activity of glutamatergic neurons in the aIC mediates SDV-induced analgesic effect, potentially serving as an important therapeutic target to treat inflammatory pain.

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