期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN
卷 12, 期 7, 页码 895-899出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2007.12.017
关键词
bone pain; bone nociception; Fos; dorsal horn; rat intra-medullary pressure
资金
- Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales
- Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
Little is known of the spinal mechanisms that mediate bone nociception. The aim of this study was to determine the pattern of neuronal activation in the spinal dorsal horn following acute noxious mechanical stimulation of bone. This was achieved by examining Fos expression in the spinal dorsal horn following acute, noxious mechanical stimulation of the rat tibia. Noxious mechanical stimuli were applied by bone drilling and raising tibial intra-osseous pressure. Control experiments consisted of surgery to expose the tibia. There was a significant increase in the number of Fos-like immunoreactive (Fos-LI) nuclei in the superficial, ipsilateral dorsal horn of animals in the bone drilling and pressure groups relative to animals of the control group at spinal cord segments L3 and L4 (P < 0.05). The number of Fos-LI nuclei in the deep dorsal horn was always lower than the number in the superficial dorsal horn (significant at L3 but not L4; P < 0.05). Whilst there appeared to be a small increase in the number of Fos-LI nuclei in the ipsilateral deep dorsal horn of bone drilling and pressure groups relative to the ipsilateral deep dorsal horn control group at both L3 and L4 segments, no significant effect was observed (P > 0.05). The present study implicates the superficial dorsal horn of the spinal cord as a region of interest in studies of acute bone pain, and highlights the notion that spinal mechanisms that mediate bone nociception may be different to those that mediate nociception of cutaneous and visceral origin. (C) 2008 European Federation of Chapters of the International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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