期刊
NEUROSCIENCE
卷 259, 期 -, 页码 1-11出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.11.045
关键词
insular cortex; anterior cingulate cortex; forced; swim stress; hyperalgesia; c-Fos; pCREB
资金
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [23590717]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24591303, 23590717] Funding Source: KAKEN
Stress affects brain activity and promotes long-term changes in multiple neural systems. Exposure to stressors causes substantial effects on the perception and response to pain. In several animal models, chronic stress produces lasting hyperalgesia. The insular (IC) and anterior cingulate cortices (ACC) are the regions exhibiting most reliable pain-related activity. And the IC and ACC play an important role in pain modulation via the descending pain modulatory system. In the present study we examined the expression of phospho-cAMP response element-binding protein (pCREB) and c-Fos in the IC and ACC after forced swim stress (FS) and complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) injection to clarify changes in the cerebral cortices that affect the activity of the descending pain modulatory system in the rats with stress-induced hyperalgesia. FS (day 1, 10 min; days 2-3, 20 min) induced an increase in the expression of pCREB and c-Fos in the anterior IC (AIC). CFA injection into the hindpaw after the FS shows significantly enhanced thermal hyperalgesia and induced a decrease in the expression of c-Fos in the AIC and the posterior IC (PIC). Quantitative image analysis showed that the numbers of c-Fos-immunoreactive neurons in the left AIC and PIC were significantly lower in the FS+ CFA group (L AIC, 95.9 +/- 6.8; L PIC, 181.9 +/- 23.1) than those in the naive group (L AIC, 151.1 +/- 19.3, p < 0.05; L PIC, 274.2 +/- 37.3, p < 0.05). These findings suggest a neuroplastic change in the IC after FS, which may be involved in the enhancement of CFA-induced thermal hyperalgesia through dysfunction of the descending pain modulatory system. (C) 2013 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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