期刊
BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 1020, 期 1-2, 页码 95-105出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.06.017
关键词
protein kinase C; NMDA receptor 1 subunit; protein phosphorylation; spinothalamic tract cell; nociception; central sensitization
资金
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS11255, NS40723, NS09743] Funding Source: Medline
We have previously reported that protein kinase A (PKA) is involved in the phosphorylation of NR1 subunits of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors in dorsal horn neurons after intradennal injection of capsaicin (CAP). To see if protein kinase C (PKC) also participates in the phosphorylation of NR1, we used electron microscopic techniques to determine further where the phosphorylated NR1 subunits (PNR1) are expressed in the spinothalamic tract (STT) cells and inummohistochemistry to examine whether a PKC inhibitor, chelerythrine chloride, blocks the enhanced phosphorylation of NR1 on serine 896. The pNR1 subunits were in the soma and dendrites of STT cells and in presynaptic endings. Western blots showed that pretreatment with the PKC inhibitor caused a decrease in CAP-induced phosphorylation of NR1 protein. In immunofluorescence staining, the number of pNR1-like immumoreactive neurons was significantly decreased on the side ipsilateral to the injection when chelerythrine chloride was administered intrathecally before CAP injection. In addition, when STT cells were labeled by microinjection of the retrograde tracer, fluorogold (FG), into the thalamus, we found that the proportion of p-NR1-LISTT cells was markedly reduced after PKC inhibition. Combined with our previous findings, these results strongly suggest that NR1 subunits in spinal dorsal horn neurons are phosphorylated following CAP injection, and this phosphorylation is catalyzed by PKC, as well as by PKA. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.
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