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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2024

Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia and Tolerance Are Driven by HCN Ion Channels.

Xue Han, Larissa Garcia Pinto, Bruno Vilar, Peter A McNaughton

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xue HanWolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom hanxue19890123@hotmail.com peter.mcnaughton@kcl.ac.uk.
Larissa Garcia PintoWolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom.
Bruno VilarWolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-6155-4080
Peter A McNaughtonWolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom hanxue19890123@hotmail.com peter.mcnaughton@kcl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-1946-9610
King's College London · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust 205006/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prolonged exposure to opioids causes an enhanced sensitivity to painful stimuli (opioid-induced hyperalgesia, OIH) and a need for increased opioid doses to maintain analgesia (opioid-induced tolerance, OIT), but the mechanisms underlying both processes remain obscure. We found that pharmacological block or genetic deletion of HCN2 ion channels in primary nociceptive neurons of male mice completely abolished OIH but had no effect on OIT. Conversely, pharmacological inhibition of central HCN channels alleviated OIT but had no effect on OIH. Expression of C-FOS, a marker of neuronal activity, was increased in second-order neurons of the dorsal spinal cord by induction of OIH, and the increase was prevented by peripheral block or genetic deletion of HCN2, but block of OIT by spinal block of HCN channels had no impact on C-FOS expression in dorsal horn neurons. Collectively, these observations show that OIH is driven by HCN2 ion channels in peripheral nociceptors, while OIT is driven by a member of the HCN family located in the CNS. Induction of OIH increased cAMP in nociceptive neurons, and a consequent shift in the activation curve of HCN2 caused an increase in nociceptor firing. The shift in HCN2 was caused by expression of a constitutively active μ-opioid receptor (MOR) and was reversed by MOR antagonists. We identified the opioid-induced MOR as a six-transmembrane splice variant, and we show that it increases cAMP by coupling constitutively to G

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Analgesics, OpioidHyperalgesiaAnimalsIon ChannelsMaleMiceNociceptorsPainSpinal CordAnalgesics, OpioidIon ChannelsaddictionHCN ion channelshyperalgesiaopioidopioid toleranceμ-opioid receptor

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PMID38124021
PMCPMC11059424
OpenAlexW4389916430

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