性甾体激素波动对辣椒素诱导疼痛和 TRPV1 表达的影响。

The Influence of Sex Steroid Hormone Fluctuations on Capsaicin-Induced Pain and TRPV1 Expression.

机构信息

División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico.

Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Biomédicas, Unidad de Posgrado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico.

出版信息

Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Jul 24;25(15):8040. doi: 10.3390/ijms25158040.

Abstract

Sexual dimorphism among mammals includes variations in the pain threshold. These differences are influenced by hormonal fluctuations in females during the estrous and menstrual cycles of rodents and humans, respectively. These physiological conditions display various phases, including proestrus and diestrus in rodents and follicular and luteal phases in humans, distinctly characterized by varying estrogen levels. In this study, we evaluated the capsaicin responses in male and female mice at different estrous cycle phases, using two murine acute pain models. Our findings indicate that the capsaicin-induced pain threshold was lower in the proestrus phase than in the other three phases in both pain assays. We also found that male mice exhibited a higher pain threshold than females in the proestrus phase, although it was similar to females in the other cycle phases. We also assessed the mRNA and protein levels of TRPV1 in the dorsal root and trigeminal ganglia of mice. Our results showed higher TRPV1 protein levels during proestrus compared to diestrus and male mice. Unexpectedly, we observed that the diestrus phase was associated with higher TRPV1 mRNA levels than those in both proestrus and male mice. These results underscore the hormonal influence on TRPV1 expression regulation and highlight the role of sex steroids in capsaicin-induced pain.

摘要

哺乳动物中的性别二态性包括痛觉阈值的变化。这些差异受到雌性激素在啮齿动物和人类的发情期和月经周期中的波动影响。这些生理条件呈现出不同的阶段,包括啮齿动物的发情前期和发情后期以及人类的卵泡期和黄体期,其特征明显是雌激素水平的变化。在这项研究中,我们使用两种小鼠急性疼痛模型评估了不同发情周期阶段雌雄小鼠的辣椒素反应。我们的研究结果表明,在两种疼痛测定中,发情前期的辣椒素诱导痛阈均低于其他三个阶段。我们还发现,发情前期的雄性小鼠比雌性小鼠具有更高的痛阈,尽管在其他周期阶段与雌性小鼠相似。我们还评估了雌性和雄性小鼠背根和三叉神经节中 TRPV1 的 mRNA 和蛋白水平。结果表明,与发情后期和雄性小鼠相比,发情前期的 TRPV1 蛋白水平更高。出乎意料的是,我们观察到发情后期的 TRPV1 mRNA 水平高于发情前期和雄性小鼠。这些结果强调了激素对 TRPV1 表达调控的影响,并突出了性激素在辣椒素诱导的疼痛中的作用。

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