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Trial reportJournal of neuroinflammation2009

Intradermal administration of magnesium sulphate and magnesium chloride produces hypesthesia to mechanical but hyperalgesia to heat stimuli in humans.

Takahiro Ushida, Osamu Iwatsu, Kazuhiro Shimo, Tomoko Tetsunaga, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Tatsunori Ikemoto, Young-Chang P Arai, Katsutoshi Suetomi, Makoto Nishihara

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Trial report in Journal of neuroinflammation, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Takahiro UshidaMultidisciplinary Pain Center, Aichi Medical University, 21 Karimata, Yazako, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1195, Japan. ushidat-koc@umin.ac.jp
Osamu Iwatsu
Kazuhiro Shimo
Tomoko Tetsunaga
Masahiko Ikeuchi
Tatsunori Ikemoto
Young-Chang P Arai
Katsutoshi Suetomi
Makoto Nishihara
Aichi Medical University · JPKōchi University · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAlthough magnesium ions (Mg2+) are known to display many similar features to other 2+ charged cations, they seem to have quite an important and unique role in biological settings, such as NMDA blocking effect. However, the role of Mg2+ in the neural transmission system has not been studied as sufficiently as calcium ions (Ca2+). To clarify the sensory effects of Mg2+ in peripheral nervous systems, sensory changes after intradermal injection of Mg2+ were studied in humans.

methodsMagnesium sulphate, magnesium chloride and saline were injected into the skin of the anterior region of forearms in healthy volunteers and injection-induced irritating pain ("irritating pain", for short), tactile sensation, tactile pressure thresholds, pinch-pain changes and intolerable heat pain thresholds of the lesion were monitored.

resultsFlare formation was observed immediately after magnesium sulphate or magnesium chloride injection. We found that intradermal injections of magnesium sulphate and magnesium chloride transiently caused irritating pain, hypesthesia to noxious and innocuous mechanical stimulations, whereas secondary hyperalgesia due to mechanical stimuli was not observed. In contrast to mechanical stimuli, intolerable heat pain-evoking temperature was significantly decreased at the injection site. In addition to these results, spontaneous pain was immediately attenuated by local cooling.

conclusionMembrane-stabilizing effect and peripheral NMDA-blocking effect possibly produced magnesium-induced mechanical hypesthesia, and extracellular cation-induced sensitization of TRPV1 channels was thought to be the primary mechanism of magnesium-induced heat hyperalgesia.

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AdultAnalgesicsCalcium Channel BlockersDouble-Blind MethodHot TemperatureHumansHyperalgesiaHypesthesiaInflammation MediatorsInjections, IntradermalMagnesium ChlorideMagnesium SulfateNervous SystemNociceptorsPain MeasurementPain ThresholdAnalgesicsCalcium Channel BlockersInflammation MediatorsMagnesium ChlorideMagnesium SulfateReceptors, N-Methyl-D-AspartateTRPV1 protein, humanTRPV Cation Channels

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PMID19715604
PMCPMC2745383
OpenAlexW2164459548

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