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ArticleScientific reports2017

Antinociceptive effects of caloric restriction on post-incisional pain in nonobese rats.

Yue Liu, Yuan Ni, Wei Zhang, Yu-E Sun, Zhengliang Ma, Xiaoping Gu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yue LiuDepartment of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, Jiangsu province, China.
Yuan NiDepartment of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, Jiangsu province, China.
Wei ZhangDepartment of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, Jiangsu province, China.
Yu-E SunDepartment of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, Jiangsu province, China.
Zhengliang MaDepartment of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, Jiangsu province, China. mazhengliang1964@nju.edu.cn.
Xiaoping GuDepartment of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, Jiangsu province, China.
Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Caloric restriction (CR) increases lifespan, retards physiological signs of aging, and delays a variety of diseases. Reduction of inflammatory response was proposed as one of the molecular mechanisms for how CR exerts beneficial effects. The present study investigated the effects of CR on postoperative pain in rats. Adult nonobese rats were divided into two dietary groups, an ad libitum fed group (AL) and a caloric restriction group (CR) that was provided with 60% of the food intake of AL rats. After 6 weeks, the effects of CR on pain behaviors and inflammation induced by plantar incision were examined. CR rats displayed significantly reduced nonevoked pain, mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia induced by incision, and showed decreased levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in serum, peri-incisional skin tissue and ipsilateral spinal cord dorsal horn at 6 h and 24 h after incision. The analgesic efficiency of parecoxib and morphine, two agents widely used for the management of postoperative pain clinically, was reinforced by CR. Together, CR generates antinociceptive effects on postoperative incisional pain in rats, perhaps providing some improvement of QOL in patients with postoperative pain, and the beneficial effects may be attributable to the inhibition of excessive inflammation induced by surgical injury.

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Caloric RestrictionNociceptionNociceptive PainPostoperative PainAnalgesicsAnimalsBehavior, AnimalBody WeightCytokinesInflammation MediatorsMaleMotor ActivityRatsSpinal Cord Dorsal HornAnalgesicsCytokinesInflammation Mediators

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PMID28496116
PMCPMC5431843
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