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Suppressed injury-induced rise in spinal prostaglandin E2 production and reduced early thermal hyperalgesia in iNOS-deficient mice

Gühring, Hans; Görig, Manfred; Ates, Mehmet; Coste, Ovidiu; Zeilhofer, Hanns Ulrich; Pahl, Andreas; Rehse, Klaus; Brune, Kay (2000). Suppressed injury-induced rise in spinal prostaglandin E2 production and reduced early thermal hyperalgesia in iNOS-deficient mice. Journal of Neuroscience, 20(17):6714-6720.

Abstract

It is widely accepted that peripheral injury increases spinal inducible cyclooxygenase (COX-2) expression and prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) formation as key mediators of nociceptive sensitization. Here, we used inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) gene-deficient (iNOS-/-) mice to determine the contribution of iNOS-derived nitric oxide (NO) to this process. iNOS-/- mice exhibited reduced thermal hyperalgesia after zymosan injection. Spinal NO and PGE(2) formation both remained at baseline levels, in contrast to wild-type (wt) mice. In wt mice reduced hyperalgesia similar to that seen in iNOS-/- mice was induced by local spinal, but not by systemic treatment with the iNOS inhibitor l-NIL, suggesting that the reduced heat sensitization in iNOS-/- mice was attributable to the lack of spinal rather than peripheral iNOS. Two additional observations indicate that the antinociceptive effects of iNOS inhibition are dependent on a loss of stimulation of PG synthesis. First, intrathecal injection of the COX inhibitor indomethacin, which exerted pronounced antinociceptive effects in wt mice, was completely ineffective in iNOS-/- mice. Second, treatment with the NO donor RE-2047 not only completely restored spinal PG production and thermal sensitization in iNOS-/- mice but also its sensitivity to indomethacin. In both types of mice induction of thermal hyperalgesia was accompanied by similar increases in COX-1 and COX-2 mRNA expression. The stimulation of PG production by NO therefore involves an increase in enzymatic activity, rather than an alteration of COX gene expression. These results indicate that NO derived from spinal iNOS acts as a fast inductor of spinal thermal hyperalgesia.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:04 Faculty of Medicine > Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Dewey Decimal Classification:570 Life sciences; biology
610 Medicine & health
Scopus Subject Areas:Life Sciences > General Neuroscience
Language:English
Date:1 September 2000
Deposited On:06 Jan 2009 21:20
Last Modified:01 Nov 2024 02:39
Publisher:Society for Neuroscience
ISSN:0270-6474
Additional Information:Holder of copyright: The Society for Neuroscience
OA Status:Hybrid
Free access at:PubMed ID. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.20-17-06714.2000
PubMed ID:10964977
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