Sustained increase of Ca+2 oscillations after chronic TRPV1 receptor activation with capsaicin in cultured spinal neurons

Autor: Jorge Roa, Patricio A. Castro, Fernando J. Sepúlveda, Gretchen Wandersleben, Luis G. Aguayo, Carlos Larrucea
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Brain research. 1218
ISSN: 0006-8993
Popis: Hyperalgesia and allodynia occur as a consequence of peripheral and central sensitization that follows sustained nociceptive activation. The cellular alterations associated to this state of nociceptive network hyperexcitability represent a form of neuronal plasticity, but they are not well understood because of its complexity in situ. In this study, after treating primary spinal neuron cultures with capsaicin (0.5-1 microM) for 48 h fluorimetric recordings were performed. The activation of TRPV1 receptors with capsaicin (0.5-1.0 microM) increased the frequency of calcium transients (0.03+/-0.002 Hz vs. 0.05+/-0.006 Hz, P
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