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ArticleExperimental and therapeutic medicine2017

Effects of hyperbaric factors on lidocaine-induced apoptosis in spinal neurons and the role of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase in rats with diabetic neuropathic pain.

Xiaolan Zheng, Ling Chen, Xiaohong Du, Junying Cai, Shuchun Yu, Hongtao Wang, Guohai Xu, Zhenzhong Luo

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Article in Experimental and therapeutic medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Xiaolan ZhengDepartment of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, P.R. China.
Ling ChenDepartment of Prevention and Health Care, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Jiangxi 330006, P.R. China.
Xiaohong DuDepartment of Anesthesiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, P.R. China.
Junying CaiDepartment of Anesthesiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, P.R. China.
Shuchun YuDepartment of Anesthesiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, P.R. China.
Hongtao WangDepartment of Anesthesiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, P.R. China.
Guohai XuDepartment of Anesthesiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, P.R. China.
Zhenzhong LuoDepartment of Anesthesiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, P.R. China.
Nanchang University · CNSecond Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University · CNFirst Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University · CN

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Abstract

The application of lidocaine can lead to nerve damage. Evidence suggests that patients with diabetic neuropathy are at a higher risk for neurotoxicity. In the present study, the successful induction of diabetic neuropathic pain (DNP) in rats via a high-sugar, high-fat diet and intraperitoneal injection of 1% streptozotocin was verified and pronounced tactile allodynia was observed. It was found that intrathecal injections of hyperbaric lidocaine produced motor blocks of longer durations in the DNP model rats than in nondiabetic rats, or in DNP model rats injected with isobaric lidocaine. Histology of the lumbar 4-5 spinal cord revealed a significant difference in neuropathology between the DNP and nondiabetic rats. Moreover, edematous neurons and TUNEL-positive cells were observed in the hyperbaric lidocaine group. It was also found that the inhibition of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38MAPK) played a neuroprotective role in response to hyperbaric lidocaine-induced apoptosis in DNP rats, which indicates that p38MAPK plays a key role in the regulation of hyperbaric lidocaine-induced apoptosis in DNP rats. These findings suggest that hyperbaric lidocaine can promote spinal cord neuronal apoptosis in rats with DNP. Furthermore, p38MAPK might play a key role in the regulation of hyperbaric lidocaine-induced apoptosis in rats with DNP.

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apoptosisdiabeteslidocainep38MAPK signaling pathwayspinal cord

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