Central sensitization (CS), the increased sensitivity of the central nervous system to somatosensory inputs, accounts for secondary hyperalgesia, a typical sign of several painful clinical conditions. Brain potentials elicited by mechanical punctate stimulation using flat-tip probes can provide neural correlates of CS, but their signal-to-noise ratio is limited by poor synchronization of the af...

Although the transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) has been implicated in the process of osmomechanical transduction, it appears to make little contribution to the normal somatosensory detection of mechanical stimuli. However, evidence suggests that it may play an important role in mechanical hyperalgesia. In the present study, we examined the common requirement for TRPV4 in mechanic...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus in some clinical cases is accompanied with hyperalgesia. In this study, we evaluated the possible beneficial effect of chronic pelargonidin (PG) treatment on hyperalgesia in streptozotocin (STZ)-diabetic neuropathic rat. METHODS Male Wistar rats (n = 56) were divided into seven groups, i.e. control, diabetic, PG-treated control, PG (single- and multiple-dose)-trea...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitors on the development of vincristine (VIN)-induced hyperalgesia. Indomethacin (IND) and celecoxib (CEX) were used as relatively selective inhibitors of COX-1 and COX-2, respectively. NOS inhibitors included the nonspecific inhibitor NG-nitro-Larginine (L-NOArg) and ...

In this study, we examined whether several types of non-opioid agents would inhibit the pain-related responses of melanoma-bearing mice. Orthotopic inoculation with melanoma into the hind paw induced marked tactile allodynia and mechanical hyperalgesia. A peroral injection (p.o.) of gabapentin (100-300 mg/kg) inhibited the allodynia and hyperalgesia, without effects on gross behaviors. An intra...

BACKGROUND Several factors are believed to influence the development and experience of pain. Human clinical pain models are central tools, in the investigation of basic physiologic pain responses, and can be applied in patients as well as in healthy volunteers. Each clinical pain model investigates different aspects of the human pain response. Brief thermal sensitization induces a mild burn inj...

The transient receptor potential ankyrin repeat 1 (TRPA1) channel is believed to be involved in many forms of acute and chronic hyperalgesia. Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) regulates chronic inflammatory hyperalgesia by controlling gene expression in sensory neurons, including genes involved in inflammatory hyperalgesia in the dental pulp. We hypothesized that NGF increases functional activities of ...

Chronic alcohol consumption produces a painful peripheral neuropathy for which there is no reliably successful therapy, attributable to, in great part, a lack of understanding of the underlying mechanisms. We tested the hypothesis that neuropathic pain associated with chronic alcohol consumption is a result of abnormal peripheral nociceptor function. In rats maintained on a diet to simulate chr...

A complex relationship exists between the psychosocial environment and the perception and experience of pain, and the mechanisms of the social communication of pain have yet to be elucidated. The present study examined the social communication of pain and demonstrates that "bystander" mice housed and tested in the same room as mice subjected to inflammatory pain or withdrawal from morphine or a...

introduction: neuropathic pain can be very difficult to treat and it is one of the important medical challenging about pain treatments. muscimol as a new agonist of gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor type a (gaba a ) have been introduced for pain management. thus, the present study was performed to evaluate the pain alleviating effect of intrathecal injection of different doses of muscimol as gab...