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ArticlePain2017

Monomethyl fumarate inhibits pain behaviors and amygdala activity in a rat arthritis model.

Hyunyoung Kim, Jeremy Thompson, Guangchen Ji, Vadivel Ganapathy, Volker Neugebauer

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Article in Pain, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Amygdala physiology in pain.Handbook of behavioral neuroscience · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hyunyoung KimDepartment of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), School of Medicine, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Jeremy ThompsonDepartment of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), School of Medicine, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Guangchen JiDepartment of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), School of Medicine, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Vadivel GanapathyCenter of Excellence for Translational Neuroscience and Therapeutics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), Lubbock, TX, USA.
Volker NeugebauerDepartment of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), School of Medicine, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Texas Tech University · USTexas Tech University Health Sciences Center · US

Funding

PAIN, NOCICEPTION, AND THE AMYGDALAR01NS038261 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI Volker Neugebauer, Igor Ponomarev · 1999 to 2026
$8.7M
Amygdala Serotonin Neurotransmission and Neuropathic PainR01NS081121 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI GREEN, THOMAS ARTHUR, NEUGEBAUER, VOLKER · 2013 to 2017
$2.3M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS038261NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS081121
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroplasticity in the amygdala, a brain center for emotions, leads to increased neuronal activity and output that can generate emotional-affective behaviors and modulate nocifensive responses. Mechanisms of increased activity in the amygdala output region (central nucleus, CeA) include increased reactive oxygen species, and so we explored beneficial effects of monomethyl fumarate (MMF), which can have neuroprotective effects through the nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 (Nrf2) antioxidant response pathway. Systemic (intraperitoneal) MMF dose-dependently inhibited vocalizations and mechanosensitivity (hindlimb withdrawal reflexes) of rats in an arthritis pain model (kaolin-carrageenan-induced monoarthritis in the knee). Stereotaxic administration of MMF into the CeA by microdialysis also inhibited vocalizations but had a limited effect on mechanosensitivity, suggesting a differential contribution to emotional-affective vs sensory pain aspects. Extracellular single-unit recordings of CeA neurons in anesthetized rats showed that stereotaxic administration of MMF into the CeA by microdialysis inhibited background activity and responses of CeA neurons to knee joint stimulation in the arthritis pain model. Monomethyl fumarate had no effect on behaviors and neuronal activity under normal conditions. The results suggest that MMF can inhibit emotional-affective responses in an arthritis pain model through an action that involves the amygdala (CeA).

Indexed as

AmygdalaAnimalsArthritisDisease Models, AnimalFumaratesMaleMaze LearningNeuronal PlasticityNeuronsPainRats, Sprague-DawleyVocalization, AnimalFumarates

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PMID28832396
PMCPMC5680104
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