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ArticleScientific reports2016

Marked Sexual Dimorphism in the Role of the Ryanodine Receptor in a Model of Pain Chronification in the Rat.

Luiz F Ferrari, Eugen V Khomula, Dionéia Araldi, Jon D Levine

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luiz F FerrariDepartments of Medicine and Oral Surgery, and Division of Neuroscience, University of California at San Francisco, 521 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Eugen V KhomulaDepartments of Medicine and Oral Surgery, and Division of Neuroscience, University of California at San Francisco, 521 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Dionéia AraldiDepartments of Medicine and Oral Surgery, and Division of Neuroscience, University of California at San Francisco, 521 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Jon D LevineDepartments of Medicine and Oral Surgery, and Division of Neuroscience, University of California at San Francisco, 521 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Nociceptor mechanisms in the transition from acute to chronic painR01NS084545 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI LEVINE, JON DAVID · 2014 to 2018
$3.1M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS084545
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hyperalgesic priming, an estrogen dependent model of the transition to chronic pain, produced by agonists at receptors that activate protein kinase C epsilon (PKCε), occurs in male but not in female rats. However, activation of second messengers downstream of PKCε, such as the ryanodine receptor, induces priming in both sexes. Since estrogen regulates intracellular calcium, we investigated the interaction between estrogen and ryanodine in the susceptibility to develop priming in females. The lowest dose of ryanodine able to induce priming in females (1 pg) is 1/100,000(th) that needed in males (100 ng), an effect dependent on the activation of ryanodine receptors. Treatment of female rats with antisense to estrogen receptor alpha (ERα), but not beta (ERβ), mRNA, prevented the induction of priming by low dose ryanodine, and the ERα agonist, PPT, induced ryanodine receptor-dependent priming. In vitro application of ryanodine in low concentration (2 nM) to small DRG neurons cultured from females, significantly potentiated calcium release via ryanodine receptors induced by caffeine. This effect was only observed in IB4+ neurons, cultured in the presence of β-estradiol or PPT. Our results demonstrate a profound regulatory role of ERα in ryanodine receptor-dependent transition to chronic pain.

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Sex CharacteristicsAnimalsCalciumCalcium SignalingCells, CulturedChronic PainDose-Response Relationship, DrugEstrogen Receptor alphaEstrogen Receptor betaFemaleHyperalgesiaMaleNeuronsPain MeasurementRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyCalciumEstrogen Receptor alphaEstrogen Receptor betaRNA, MessengerRyanodineRyanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel

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PMID27499186
PMCPMC4976309
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