1. Effects of tianeptine on the development and maintenance of mechanical allodynia in a rat model of neuropathic pain
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Myung Ha Yoon, Jeong Il Choi, Woong Mo Kim, Bong Ha Heo, Keun Suk Park, Jae Yun Shin, and Hyung Gon Lee
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Male ,Pain Threshold ,Thiazepines ,Rat model ,Analgesic ,Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic ,Pharmacology ,Intrathecal ,Mechanical Allodynia ,Rats, Sprague-Dawley ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030202 anesthesiology ,Physical Stimulation ,medicine ,Animals ,Tianeptine ,Ligation ,business.industry ,General Neuroscience ,Analgesics, Non-Narcotic ,Spinal Nerves ,Allodynia ,Hyperalgesia ,Touch ,Anesthesia ,Von frey ,Neuropathic pain ,Neuralgia ,medicine.symptom ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,medicine.drug - Abstract
We validate the analgesic efficacy of tianeptine by different administration routes and timing in a rat model of neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain was induced by ligating the L5 and L6 spinal nerves in male Sprague-Dawley rats, and mechanical allodynia was assessed using von Frey filaments. The effects of orally administered tianeptine and pretreatment with tianeptine (intrathecally or intraperitoneally) on mechanical allodynia were assessed. Oral and preemptive intrathecal administration of tianeptine significantly increased the paw withdrawal threshold but preemptive intraperitoneal administration did not. Nevertheless, intraperitoneal pretreatment of tianeptine potentiated the antiallodynic effects of subsequently administered tianeptine. These findings suggest that tianeptine may be effective for preventing and treating neuropathic pain and that it can be used more widely in clinical pain practice.
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- 2016
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