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Ness TJ, DeWitte C, DeBerry JJ. Spinal neurochemical mechanisms of acute stress-induced visceral hypersensitivity in healthy rats. Neurosci Lett. 2021;770:136401doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2021.136401.
Ness, T. J., DeWitte, C., & DeBerry, J. J. (2021). Spinal neurochemical mechanisms of acute stress-induced visceral hypersensitivity in healthy rats. Neuroscience letters, 770136401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2021.136401
Ness, Timothy J, et al. "Spinal neurochemical mechanisms of acute stress-induced visceral hypersensitivity in healthy rats." Neuroscience letters vol. 770 (2021): 136401. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2021.136401
Ness TJ, DeWitte C, DeBerry JJ. Spinal neurochemical mechanisms of acute stress-induced visceral hypersensitivity in healthy rats. Neurosci Lett. 2021 Dec 17;770:136401. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2021.136401. Epub 2021 Dec 17. PMID: 34929317.
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Neurosci Lett. 2021 Dec 17;770:136401. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2021.136401. Epub 2021 Dec 17.

Spinal neurochemical mechanisms of acute stress-induced visceral hypersensitivity in healthy rats.

Neuroscience letters

Timothy J Ness, Cary DeWitte, Jennifer J DeBerry

Affiliations

  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
  3. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 34929317 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2021.136401

Abstract

Psychological stress has been demonstrated to increase reports of pain in humans with pelvic pain of urologic origin. In rodent models, conditioning with acute footshock (AFS) has been demonstrated to increase measures of stress/anxiety as well as bladder hypersensitivity. The spinal neurochemical mechanisms of this pro-nociceptive process are unknown and so the present study administered antagonists for multiple receptors that have been associated with facilitatory mechanisms into the spinal intrathecal space. Bladder hypersensitivity was induced through use of an AFS paradigm in which female Sprague-Dawley rats received a 15-min intermittent shock treatment. Visceromotor responses (VMRs; abdominal muscle contractions) to air pressure-controlled urinary bladder distension (UBD) were used as nociceptive endpoints. Immediately following AFS treatments, rats were anesthetized (inhaled isoflurane, IP urethane) and surgically prepared. Pharmacological antagonists were administered via an intrathecal (IT) catheter onto the lumbosacral spinal cord and VMRs to graded UBD determined 15 min later. Administration of IT naloxone hydrochloride (10 μg) and IT phentolamine hydrochloride (10 μg) resulted in VMRs that were more robust than VMRs in rats that received AFS and IT normal saline whereas there was no significant effect of these drugs on VMRs in rats which underwent non-footshock procedures. In contrast, a low dose of the NMDA-receptor antagonist, MK-801 (30 μg), significantly reduced VMRs in rats made hypersensitive to UBD by AFS, but had no significant effect on rats that underwent non-footshock procedures. This study suggests that pro-nociceptive effects of AFS in otherwise healthy rats involve a spinal NMDA-linked mechanism. The effects of IT naloxone and IT phentolamine suggest the presence of inhibitory influences that are opioidergic and/or alpha-adrenergic and that are masked by the pro-nociceptive mechanisms. Other agents with no statistically significant effect on VMRs include methysergide (30 μg), ondansetron (10 μg), mecamylamine (50 μg), antalarmin (24 μg), aSVG30 (12 μg), and SSR149415 (50 μg).

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Keywords: Footshock; Rat; Stress; Urinary bladder; Visceral hyperalgesia

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