Wang Jing, Wang Juan, Wan You, Li Xiaoli
Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Institute of Electrical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China.
Front Neurol. 2017 May 8;8:155. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2017.00155. eCollection 2017.
Chronic pain is a pathological developing course of pain. In clinic, an objective indicator is needed for diagnosing and better controlling chronic pain. The abnormal neural responses in chronic pain are reflected by multiple event-related potentials (ERPs) in time, frequency, and location domain, respectively. However, multiple changes in ERPs are not applicable in clinic. So, the principal feature covered the most informative changes extracted from these three domains of ERP during the development of chronic pain is needed. In the present study, a parallel factor analysis method was employed to extract time-frequency-channel features of laser-evoked potential (LEP) simultaneously from rats with chronic inflammatory pain. Results showed that the main feature of LEP in channel domain locates in the frontal brain region in rats with chronic inflammatory pain while in the parietal brain region in control rats. In the frequency domain, the main frequency of LEP was significantly higher in chronic inflammatory pain rats than that in control rats. These findings indicate that the frontal region with higher frequency response to nociceptive information is the principal feature in the chronic pain state. Our study provided not only a principal feature of LEP but also a promising strategy for chronic pain, which is potential for clinic application.
慢性疼痛是一种疼痛的病理发展过程。在临床上,需要一个客观指标来诊断和更好地控制慢性疼痛。慢性疼痛中异常的神经反应分别通过多个事件相关电位(ERP)在时间、频率和位置域中得以体现。然而,ERP的多种变化并不适用于临床。因此,需要提取在慢性疼痛发展过程中从ERP这三个域中提取的最具信息性变化的主要特征。在本研究中,采用平行因子分析方法从患有慢性炎症性疼痛的大鼠中同时提取激光诱发电位(LEP)的时频通道特征。结果表明,慢性炎症性疼痛大鼠LEP在通道域的主要特征位于额叶脑区,而对照大鼠位于顶叶脑区。在频域中,慢性炎症性疼痛大鼠LEP的主要频率显著高于对照大鼠。这些发现表明,对伤害性信息具有较高频率反应的额叶区域是慢性疼痛状态下的主要特征。我们的研究不仅提供了LEP的主要特征,还为慢性疼痛提供了一种有前景的策略,具有临床应用潜力。