NMDA or non-NMDA receptor antagonists attenuate increased Fos expression in spinal dorsal horn GABAergic neurons after intradermal injection of capsaicin in rats
| Autor: | W. D. Willis, Xiaoju Zou, Qing Lin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Injections Intradermal Blotting Western Central nervous system Neural Conduction Fluorescent Antibody Technique Pain Receptors N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Functional Laterality Membrane Potentials Rats Sprague-Dawley chemistry.chemical_compound Interneurons Internal medicine medicine Animals gamma-Aminobutyric Acid 6-Cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2 3-dione Inflammation Neurogenic inflammation Dose-Response Relationship Drug General Neuroscience Nociceptors Neural Inhibition Spinal cord Rats Up-Regulation Posterior Horn Cells Endocrinology medicine.anatomical_structure Nociception 2-Amino-5-phosphonovalerate nervous system chemistry Capsaicin CNQX GABAergic NMDA receptor Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | Neuroscience. 106:171-182 |
| ISSN: | 0306-4522 |
| Popis: | GABAergic neurons play an important role in the generation of primary afferent depolarization, which results in presynaptic inhibition and, if large enough, triggers dorsal root reflexes. Recent electrophysiological studies by our group have suggested that increased excitation of spinal GABAergic neurons by activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and non-NMDA receptors following intradermal injection of capsaicin results in the generation of DRRs that contribute to neurogenic inflammation. The present study was to determine if changes in the expression of Fos protein occur in GABAergic neurons in the lumbosacral spinal cord following injection of capsaicin into the glabrous skin of one hind paw of anesthetized rats and if pretreatment with an NMDA receptor antagonist, D-(-)-2-amino-7-phosphonoheptanoic acid (AP7) or a non-NMDA receptor antagonist, 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX) blocks Fos expression in these neurons. The experiments used western blots and immunofluorescence double labeling staining following capsaicin or vehicle injection. Western blots showed that Fos protein was increased on the ipsilateral side in spinal cord tissue 0.5 h after capsaicin injection. Pretreatment with AP7 or CNQX caused a decrease in capsaicin-induced Fos expression. Immunofluorescence double labeling showed that the proportion of Fos-positive GABAergic neuronal profiles was significantly increased following capsaicin injection (48.8+/-4.8%) compared to the vehicle injection (23.8+/-5.1%) in superficial laminae on the ipsilateral side in lumbosacral spinal cord (P0.05). However, when the spinal cord was pretreated with AP7 (5 microg) or CNQX (0.2 microg), only 9.1+/-0.6% or 7.1+/-0.8% of GABA-immunoreactive neuronal profiles were stained for Fos following capsaicin injection. The blockade of the capsaicin-evoked Fos staining was dose-dependent. These findings suggest that GABAergic neurons take part in dorsal horn circuits that modulate nociceptive information and that the function of GABAergic neurons following capsaicin injection is partially mediated by NMDA and non-NMDA receptors. |
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