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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2012

Alleviation of neuropathic pain hypersensitivity by inhibiting neuronal pentraxin 1 in the rostral ventromedial medulla.

Agustin Zapata, Silvia Pontis, Raf J Schepers, Ruizhong Wang, Eric Oh, Alexandra Stein, Cristina M Bäckman, Paul Worley, Marta Enguita, M Alba Abad and 2 more

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Agustin ZapataIntegrative Neuroscience Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA. Azapata@mail.nih.gov
Silvia Pontis
Raf J Schepers
Ruizhong Wang
Eric Oh
Alexandra Stein
Cristina M Bäckman
Paul Worley
Marta Enguita
M Alba Abad
Ramon Trullas
Toni S Shippenberg
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red · ESNational Institute on Drug Abuse · USBiomedical Research Networking Center on Neurodegenerative Diseases · ESJohns Hopkins Medicine · US

Funding

NEURONAL ACTIVITY REGULATED PENTRAXIN AND GLUTAMATE RECR01NS039156 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WORLEY, PAUL F · 1999 to 2012
$4.9M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 DA999999NINDS NIH HHS NS39156NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS039156
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peripheral nerve injury causes spontaneous and long-lasting pain, hyperalgesia, and allodynia. Excitatory amino acid receptor-dependent increases in descending facilitatory drive from the brainstem rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM) contribute to injury-evoked hypersensitivity. Although increased excitability likely reflects changes in synaptic efficacy, the cellular mechanisms underlying injury-induced synaptic plasticity are poorly understood. Neuronal pentraxin 1 (NP1), a protein with exclusive CNS expression, is implicated in synaptogenesis and AMPA receptor recruitment to immature synapses. Its role in the adult brain and in descending pain facilitation is unknown. Here, we use the spared nerve injury (SNI) model in rodents to examine this issue. We show that SNI increases RVM NP1 expression and constitutive deletion or silencing NP1 in the RVM, before or after SNI, attenuates allodynia and hyperalgesia in rats. Selective rescue of RVM NP1 expression restores behavioral hypersensitivity of knock-out mice, demonstrating a key role of RVM NP1 in the pathogenesis of neuropathic pain.

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AnimalsC-Reactive ProteinGene SilencingHyperalgesiaMaleMedulla OblongataMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuralgiaNeuronsPain ManagementPain MeasurementPentraxinsRatsC-Reactive ProteinNerve Tissue ProteinsPentraxins

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PMID22956834
PMCPMC3457630
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