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Antinociceptive effects of endomorphin-2: suppression of substance P release in the inflammatory pain model rat.

Neurochemistry international (2015-02-11)
Xiao-Na Wu, Tao Zhang, Nian-Song Qian, Xiao-Dong Guo, Hong-Jun Yang, Kai-Bin Huang, Gao-Quan Luo, Wei Xiang, Wen-Ting Deng, Guang-Hai Dai, Kai-Run Peng, Su-Yue Pan
ABSTRACT

Endomorphin-2 (EM2) and Substance P (SP) exert suppressive and facilitative influences upon nociception, respectively. Although EM2 and SP were often co-expressed in single neurons in dorsal root ganglion (DRG), it is still unknown if and how the nociception-suppressive influences of EM2 might be exerted upon nociception-facilitative effects of SP in the DRG neurons. We examined these issues in the inflammatory pain model rats produced by subcutaneous injection of the complete Freund's adjuvant into the hind paw. The paw withdrawal threshold for mechanical allodynia was measured. Changes of EM2 and SP release were estimated by measuring intrathecal levels of EM2 and SP through in vivo microdialysis analysis of cerebrospinal fluid. The mechanical allodynia was dose-dependently attenuated by intrathecal injection of EM2 or a neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist, and facilitated by intrathecal injection of SP or a mu-opioid receptor (MOR) antagonist. Importantly, intrathecal level of SP was found to be lowered by intrathecal injection of EM2. Morphologically, colocalization of EM2-, MOR- and SP-immunoreactivity in single DRG neurons was observed by immunofluorescent histochemistry, and co-expression of EM2 and SP in large, dense-cored presynaptic vesicles in primary afferents, as well as localization of MOR on pre- and postsynaptic membrane in spinal dorsal horn, was also confirmed electron miscroscopically. Thus, the results indicated that analgesic influences of EM2 upon inflammatory pain might be exerted through suppression of SP release, supporting the assumptions that binding of EM2 to presynaptic MOR might induce such effects.

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