期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
卷 605, 期 1-3, 页码 103-108出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2009.01.014
关键词
Allodynia; Formalin; Neuropathic pain; Pregabalin
A major symptom of persistent neuropathic pain, which may develop after peripheral nerve injury, is hypersensitivity (allodynia) to normally innocuous cold stimuli. Although the anticonvulsant pregabalin has been demonstrated to relieve neuropathic pain. both in preclinical models and clinically, the analgesic effect of the drug in animals has not been profiled for cold hypersensitivity. Therefore, we examined the effect of pregabalin (single oral dosing: 30,100, 300 mu mol/kg) on cold allodynia in two models of chronic neuropathic pain, the spared nerve injury (SNI) and the spinal nerve ligation (SNL) models. A significant antiallodynic effect was observed with pregabalin at all doses tested with a maximal effect of 71% (SNI) and 60% (SNL), respectively compared to vehicle. For comparison, only the highest dose tested of pregabalin (300 mu mol/kg), significantly decreased pain responses in phase 2 of the rat formalin test (similar to 67% pain inhibition). However, pregabalin at this high dose also affected other centrally mediated behavioural functions, such as motor activity and anxiolytic behaviour in naive animals, which could potentially interfere with the pain readout. The present study demonstrates that oral administration of pregabalin significantly reduces both cold allodynia induced in the SNI and the SNL models of neuropathic pain as well as formalin-induced nociception, albeit with different sensitivity and potency. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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