ArticleMolecular pain
Transcription-independent expression of PKMζ in the anterior cingulate cortex contributes to chronically maintained neuropathic pain.
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- Synaptic Plasticity in the Pain-Related Cingulate and Insular Cortex.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Abolished ketamine effects on the spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic current of medial prefrontal cortex neurons in GluN2D knockout mice.Molecular brain · 2021Article
- Role of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Translational Pain Research.Neuroscience bulletin · 2021Review
- Neuronal Adenylyl Cyclase Targeting Central Plasticity for the Treatment of Chronic Pain.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2020Review
- The Medial Prefrontal Cortex as a Central Hub for Mental Comorbidities Associated with Chronic Pain.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Blockade of BDNF signalling attenuates chronic visceral hypersensitivity in an IBS-like rat model.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Protein kinase M ζ is well known for its role in maintaining memory and pain. Previously, we revealed that the activation of protein kinase M ζ in the anterior cingulate cortex plays a role in sustaining neuropathic pain. However, the mechanism by which protein kinase M ζ is expressed in the anterior cingulate cortex by peripheral nerve injury, and whether blocking of protein kinase M ζ using its inhibitor, zeta inhibitory peptide, produces analgesic effects in neuropathic pain maintained chronically after injury, have not previously been resolved. In this study, we show that protein kinase M ζ expression in the anterior cingulate cortex is enhanced by peripheral nerve injury in a transcription-independent manner. We also reveal that the inhibition of protein kinase M ζ through zeta inhibitory peptide treatment is enough to reduce mechanical allodynia responses in mice with one-month-old nerve injuries. However, the zeta inhibitory peptide treatment was only effective for a limited time.
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