Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Disrupting spinal noradrenergic activation delays recovery of acute incision induced hypersensitivity and increases spinal glial activation in the rat

Clinical studies suggest that descending inhibitory controls from the brainstem are important for speeding recovery from pain following surgery. We examined the effects of destroying spinally projecting noradrenergic neurons via intrathecally administered antibody to dopamine β-hydroxylase conjugated to saporin (DβH-saporin) on recovery in an acute incisional pain model. Mechanical and thermal paw withdrawal thresholds and non-evoked spontaneous guarding scores were tested for several weeks postoperatively and analyzed using mixed effects growth curve modeling.

from The Journal of Pain http://ift.tt/1Hq7Run
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