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ArticleBioMed research international2014

Effects of various antiepileptics used to alleviate neuropathic pain on compound action potential in frog sciatic nerves: comparison with those of local anesthetics.

Yuhei Uemura, Tsugumi Fujita, Sena Ohtsubo, Naomi Hirakawa, Yoshiro Sakaguchi, Eiichi Kumamoto

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Article in BioMed research international, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yuhei UemuraDepartment of Physiology, Saga Medical School, Saga 849-8501, Japan ; Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Saga Medical School, Saga 849-8501, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1636-2105
Tsugumi FujitaDepartment of Physiology, Saga Medical School, Saga 849-8501, Japan.
Sena OhtsuboDepartment of Physiology, Saga Medical School, Saga 849-8501, Japan.
Naomi HirakawaDepartment of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Saga Medical School, Saga 849-8501, Japan.
Yoshiro SakaguchiDepartment of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Saga Medical School, Saga 849-8501, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0750-1046
Eiichi KumamotoDepartment of Physiology, Saga Medical School, Saga 849-8501, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2365-1768
Saga Medical School Hospital · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antiepileptics used for treating neuropathic pain have various actions including voltage-gated Na(+) and Ca(2+) channels, glutamate-receptor inhibition, and GABA(A)-receptor activation, while local anesthetics are also used to alleviate the pain. It has not been fully examined yet how nerve conduction inhibitions by local anesthetics differ in extent from those by antiepileptics. Fast-conducting compound action potentials (CAPs) were recorded from frog sciatic nerve fibers by using the air-gap method. Antiepileptics (lamotrigine and carbamazepine) concentration dependently reduced the peak amplitude of the CAP (IC50 = 0.44 and 0.50 mM, resp.). Carbamazepine analog oxcarbazepine exhibited an inhibition smaller than that of carbamazepine. Antiepileptic phenytoin (0.1 mM) reduced CAP amplitude by 15%. On the other hand, other antiepileptics (gabapentin, sodium valproate, and topiramate) at 10 mM had no effect on CAPs. The CAPs were inhibited by local anesthetic levobupivacaine (IC50 = 0.23 mM). These results indicate that there is a difference in the extent of nerve conduction inhibition among antiepileptics and that some antiepileptics inhibit nerve conduction with an efficacy similar to that of levobupivacaine or to those of other local anesthetics (lidocaine, ropivacaine, and cocaine) as reported previously. This may serve to know a contribution of nerve conduction inhibition in the antinociception by antiepileptics.

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Action PotentialsAnesthetics, LocalAnimalsAnticonvulsantsBupivacaineCarbamazepineHumansLamotrigineLevobupivacaineNeuralgiaRanidaeSciatic NerveStructure-Activity RelationshipTriazinesAnesthetics, LocalAnticonvulsantsBupivacaineCarbamazepineLamotrigineLevobupivacaineTriazines

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PMID24707490
PMCPMC3953671
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