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Florenzano, F. et al.

Nociceptive stimulation induces glutamate receptor down-regulation in the trigeminal nucleus.

The dorsal horn of the subnucleus caudalis of the spinal trigeminal nucleus is a relay of oro-facial pain transmission; increase in subnucleus caudalis neuronal activity in response to tissue injury affects the level of chemical mediators participating in nociceptive processing. We investigated, by means of immunocytochemistry, the expression of N-methyl-D-aspartate and alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA) glutamate receptor subunits in this nucleus in a model of inflammation. Rats injected with formalin in the whisker pad were compared with saline-injected control rats. One and two days after formalin injection, the immunostaining of cell bodies and neuropil of the AMPA receptor subunits GluR1 and GluR2/3 was markedly decreased in the ipsilateral superficial laminae of the subnucleus caudalis compared to the contralateral side. Side differences were not evident in the saline-treated animals. The down-regulation of AMPA GluR1 and GluR2/3 was no longer detectable in the subnucleus caudalis three days after formalin injection. No side difference was detected in the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit NR2A/B immunoreactivity of the subnucleus caudalis at any time-point in the formalin-injected animals. The modulation of AMPA receptor may be related to the decrease of hyperalgesia evident 1 h after formalin injection, in spite of the increasing perioral inflammation evident later on and characteristic of the formalin model. The present findings point out a selective down-regulation of AMPA receptor subunits in the transduction of trigeminal pain. These data also support the involvement of glutamate receptor subunits in the processing of trigeminal inflammation induced by noxious chemical stimulation.[1]

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Nociceptive stimulation induces glutamate receptor down-regulation in the trigeminal nucleus. Florenzano, F., De Luca, B. Neuroscience (1999) [Pubmed]

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