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Low rather than high dose lipopolysaccharide 'priming' of muscle provides an animal model of persistent elevated mechanical sensitivity for the study of chronic pain
- Source :
- European journal of pain (London, England). 15(7)
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Experimental animal pain models involving peripheral nerve lesions have expanded the understanding of the pathological changes caused by nerve damage. However models for the pathogenesis of chronic pain patients lacking obvious nerve injuries have not been developed to the same extent. Guided by clinical observations, we focused on the initiating noxious event, the context when applying nociceptive stimulation targeting long-lasting pain elicited by muscle insult. The administration of a nociceptive agent (6% hypertonic saline: HS; 5-time repeated-injection: HS5) after pretreatment with an immuno-inflammatory agent (lipopolysaccharide: LPS, 2 μg/kg) into one gastrocnemius muscle produced markedly long-persisting biphasic sustained mechanical hypersensitivity on the plantar surface of both hindpaws. In the acute phase, the blockade of afferent inputs from the injected-site was effective in returning the contralateral enhanced-responses to baseline levels. In contrast, similar blockade during the chronic phase did not affect the contralateral enhanced-responses, indicating that the hypersensitivity in the two phases was probably induced by different mechanisms. However, increasing the dose of LPS (20 μg/kg) before applying HS5 eliminated the development of mechanical hypersensitivity in the chronic phase, while the hypersensitivity in the acute phase was significantly more severe than with low-dose LPS-pretreatment. In this model, the development of hypersensitivity could be modulated by manipulating LPS-doses prior to noxious stimulation. This novel chronic pain model based on a preceding ‘priming’ myalgic stimulus provides an intriguing means for studying the pathogenesis of chronic pain.
- Subjects :
- Lipopolysaccharides
Male
Stimulation
Injections, Intramuscular
Pathogenesis
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Gastrocnemius muscle
Physical Stimulation
Noxious stimulus
Medicine
Animals
Muscle, Skeletal
Pain Measurement
business.industry
Chronic pain
Nociceptors
medicine.disease
Blockade
Hypertonic saline
Rats
Disease Models, Animal
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Nociception
Hyperalgesia
Anesthesia
Chronic Pain
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15322149
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European journal of pain (London, England)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4b3f35d42e81c2286f31260ceabcb5b3