Lough Chris, Young Tracey, Parker Renee, Wittenauer Shannon, Vincler Michelle
Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.
Neurosci Lett. 2007 Jul 5;422(1):54-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.06.002. Epub 2007 Jun 8.
Chronic nicotine administration has been shown previously to produce mechanical hypersensitivity in the rat although the mechanism of this effect is unknown. Rats treated with chronic systemic nicotine 3.6 or 8.6 mg/(kg day) for 14-21 days displayed mechanical hypersensitivity coincident with an increase of prodynorphin immunoreactivity and dynorphin content within the spinal cord. The administration of dynorphin antiserum intrathecally significantly attenuated chronic nicotine-induced mechanical hypersensitivity. Our results suggest that chronic nicotine administration produces an increase in spinal dynorphin content and release that contributes to mechanical hypersensitivity.
先前的研究表明,长期给予尼古丁会使大鼠产生机械性超敏反应,但其作用机制尚不清楚。用3.6或8.6毫克/(千克·天)的慢性全身性尼古丁处理大鼠14 - 21天,会出现机械性超敏反应,同时脊髓内前强啡肽免疫反应性和强啡肽含量增加。鞘内注射强啡肽抗血清可显著减轻慢性尼古丁诱导的机械性超敏反应。我们的结果表明,长期给予尼古丁会导致脊髓强啡肽含量和释放增加,从而导致机械性超敏反应。