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The interplay of specific leukocyte subpopulations, resident cells and proalgesic mediators results in pain in inflammation. Proalgesic mediators like reactive oxygen species (ROS) and downstream products elicit pain by stimulation of transient receptor potential (TRP) channels. The contribution of leukocyte subpopulations however is less clear. Local injection of neutrophilic chemokines elicits neutrophil recruitment but no hyperalgesia in rats. In meta-analyses the monocytic chemoattractant, CCL2 (monocyte chemoattractant protein-1; MCP-1), was identified as an important factor in the pathophysiology of human and animal pain. In this study, intraplantar injection of CCL2 elicited thermal and mechanical pain in Wistar but not in Dark Agouti (DA) rats, which lack p47phox, a part of the NADPH oxidase complex. Inflammatory hyperalgesia after complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) as well as capsaicin-induced hyperalgesia and capsaicin-induced current flow in dorsal root ganglion neurons in DA were comparable to Wistar rats. Macrophages from DA expressed lower levels of CCR2 and thereby migrated less towards CCL2 and formed limited amounts of ROS in vitro and 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE) in the tissue in response to CCL2 compared to Wistar rats. Local adoptive transfer of peritoneal macrophages from Wistar but not from DA rats reconstituted CCL2-triggered hyperalgesia in leukocyte-depleted DA and Wistar rats. A pharmacological stimulator of ROS production (phytol) restored CCL2-induced hyperalgesia in vivo in DA rats. In Wistar rats, CCL2-induced hyperalgesia was completely blocked by superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase or tempol. Likewise, inhibition of NADPH oxidase by apocynin reduced CCL2-elicited hyperalgesia but not CFA-induced inflammatory hyperalgesia. In summary, we provide a link between CCL2, CCR2 expression on macrophages, NADPH oxidase, ROS and the development CCL2-triggered hyperalgesia, which is different from CFA-induced hyperalgesia. The study further supports the impact of CCL2 and ROS as potential targets in pain therapy.
Tenderness and mechanical allodynia are key symptoms of malignant tumor, inflammation and neuropathy. The proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) is causally involved in all three pathologies. IL-6 not only regulates innate immunity and inflammation but also causes nociceptor sensitization and hyperalgesia. In general and in most cell types including immune cells and sensory neurons, IL-6 binds soluble mu receptor subunits which heteromerizes with membrane bound IL-6 signal transducer gp130. In the present study, we used a conditional knock-out strategy to investigate the importance of signal transducer gp130 expressed in C nociceptors for the generation and maintenance of mechanical hypersensitivity. Nociceptors were sensitized to mechanical stimuli by experimental tumor and this nociceptor sensitization was preserved at later stages of the pathology in control mice. However, in mice with a conditional deletion of gp130 in Nav1.8 expressing nociceptors mechanical hypersensitivity by experimental tumor, nerve injury or inflammation recovery was not preserved in the maintenance phase and nociceptors exhibited normal mechanical thresholds comparable to untreated mice. Together, the results argue for IL-6 signal transducer gp130 as an essential prerequisite in nociceptors for long-term mechanical hypersensitivity associated with cancer, inflammation and nerve injury.
In der vorliegenden Studie wurde untersucht, ob der nichtkompetitive NMDA-Rezeptorantagonist Memantine die Wahrnehmung noxischer und nichtnoxischer Temperaturreize beim Menschen signifikant beeinflusst. Dazu wurden bei 40 Probanden, doppelblind und placebokontrolliert die Wahrnehmungsschwellen für Warm-, Kalt- und Hitzeschmerzreize bestimmt. Anschließend wurde ein noxischer Hitzereiz appliziert; die Schmerzintensität wurde aufgezeichnet. Danach wurden Veränderungen der Wahrnehmungsschwellen innerhalb und außerhalb des Reizareals registriert. Die Ausdehnung von Allodynie, sekundärer Hyperalgesie und Flarereaktion wurde vermessen. Bei der Memantinegruppe zeigte sich vor der Applikation noxischer Hitze eine signifikante Reduktion der Sensibilität für Kaltreize. Durch die Verabreichung des Hitzeschmerzreizes von 47°C wurden die Probanden beider Gruppen weniger sensibel gegenüber Warm- und Kaltreizen innerhalb der Hitzereizapplikationsstelle. Die Ausdehnung der Flarefläche und die Perfusion innerhalb des gereizten Areals waren bei Probanden durch die Memantinevorbehandlung deutlich reduziert. Aus diesen Ergebnissen lassen sich folgende Vermutungen ableiten: 1. Durch alleinige Blockade des NMDA-Rezeptors besteht bei chronischen Schmerzzuständen wenig Aussicht auf Schmerzlinderung. 2. Die Aktivierung des NMDA-Rezeptors ist für die Wahrnehmung von Kaltreizen von Bedeutung. 3. Ein Axonreflex löst die Flarereaktion nach Verabreichung eines noxischen Hitzereizes aus. Intensität und Ausdehnung der Flarereaktion werden durch NMDA-Rezeptoren moduliert.