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JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
卷 92, 期 4, 页码 1982-1989出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00411.2004
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- NIDA NIH HHS [DA-05608] Funding Source: Medline
The analgesic actions of opioids can be modified by endogenous anti-opioid peptides, among them cholecystokinin (CCK). CCK is now thought to have a broader, pronociceptive role, and contributes to hyperalgesia in inflammatory and neuropathic pain states. The aim of this study was to determine whether anti-opioid and pronociceptive actions of CCK have a common underlying mechanism. We showed previously that a low dose of CCK microinjected into the rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM) blocked the analgesic effect of systemically administered morphine by preventing activation of OFF-cells, which are the antinociceptive output of this well characterized pain-modulating region. At this antiopioid dose, CCK had no effect on the spontaneous activity of these neurons or on the activity of ON-cells ( hypothesized to facilitate nociception) or NEUTRAL cells ( which have no known role in pain modulation). In this study, we used microinjection of a higher dose of CCK into the RVM to test whether activation of ON-cells could explain the pronociceptive action of this peptide. Paw withdrawal latencies to noxious heat and the activity of a characterized RVM neuron were recorded in rats lightly anesthetized with methohexital. CCK ( 30 ng/200 nl) activated ON-cells selectively and produced behavioral hyperalgesia. Firing of OFF-cells and NEUTRAL cells was unaffected. These data show that direct, selective activation of RVM ON-cells by CCK is sufficient to produce thermal hyperalgesia and indicate that the anti-opioid and pronociceptive effects of this peptide are mediated by actions on different RVM cell classes.
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