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ArticleScientific reports2017

Upregulation of prefrontal metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 mediates neuropathic pain and negative mood symptoms after spinal nerve injury in rats.

Geehoon Chung, Chae Young Kim, Yeong-Chan Yun, Sang Ho Yoon, Myoung-Hwan Kim, Yu Kyeong Kim, Sang Jeong Kim

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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. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Geehoon ChungDepartment of Physiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0771-4391
Chae Young KimDepartment of Physiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Yeong-Chan YunDepartment of Physiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Sang Ho YoonDepartment of Physiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Myoung-Hwan KimDepartment of Physiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Yu Kyeong KimDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Sang Jeong KimDepartment of Physiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. sangjkim@snu.ac.kr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8931-3713
Seoul National University · KR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with chronic pain easily accompany the negative mood symptoms such as depression and anxiety, and these disturbances in turn affect the aversive perception of pain. However, the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. We hypothesized that the alteration of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) in the brain region underlies such a comorbidity of aversive states. We scanned the brain of chronic neuropathic pain model rats using positron emission tomography (PET) technique with an mGluR5-selective radiotracer [11C] ABP688 and found various brain regions with higher or lower level of mGluR5 compared to control rats. Among the brain areas, a prominent upregulation of mGluR5 was shown in the prelimbic region (PrL) of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of chronic neuropathic pain animals. A pharmacological blockade of upregulated mGluR5 in the PrL ameliorated the negative symptoms including tactile hypersensitivity and depressive-like behavior, which relieved the subjects from the unpleasant state of chronic neuropathic pain condition. Conversely, lentiviral overexpression of the mGluR5 in the PrL of naïve rats successfully induced comorbid pain and negative moods. Our data provide deeper insight into the shared mechanism of pain perception and negative emotions, identifying a therapeutic target for the treatment of chronic pain and mood disorders.

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AffectPain PerceptionUp-RegulationAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalNeuralgiaPositron-Emission TomographyPrefrontal CortexRatsReceptor, Metabotropic Glutamate 5Spinal NervesWounds and InjuriesReceptor, Metabotropic Glutamate 5

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PMID28851991
PMCPMC5575341
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