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Participation of cyclooxygenases in cutaneous thermal nociception under non-inflamed and inflamed conditions.

OBJECTIVE AND DESIGN: Effects of cyclooxygenase inhibitors on noxious thermal stimuli were investigated in non-inflamed and inflamed rats. MATERIALS: Male Sprague-Dawley rats were used in this study. TREATMENT: Cyclooxygenase inhibitors, indomethacin, mofezolac, NS-398, and JTE-522 were administered orally at a dose of 10 mg/kg 1 h prior to and 4 h after the intravenous injection of lipopolysaccharide (1 mg/kg). METHODS: The nociceptive response was evaluated from the escape latency of foot withdrawal to the thermal stimuli with a beam of light. Expression ofcyclooxygenase was examined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS: In normal rat, administration of indomethacin, relatively cyclooxygenase-1-selective inhibitor, mofezolac, or cyclooxygenase-2-selective inhibitors, NS-398 and JTE-522 had no effects on the escape latency against thermal stimuli. Injection of lipopolysaccharide into rat induced the expression of mRNA for cyclooxygenase-2 in the subcutaneous tissue of foot pad. The escape latency at 8 h was significantly shortened by the injection. This hyperalgesia could be reversed by pretreatment of rat with NS-398 or JTE-522, but not with mofezolac. CONCLUSIONS: Cyclooxygenases may have little participation in peripheral skin thermal nociception in non-inflamed condition, although cyclooxygenase-2 could be responsible for the hyperalgesia during inflammation induced by lipopolysaccharide.[1]

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  1. Participation of cyclooxygenases in cutaneous thermal nociception under non-inflamed and inflamed conditions. Suzuki, M., Hayash, I., Nara, Y., Kumaga, Y., Okamoto, H., Hoka, S., Majima, M. Inflamm. Res. (2001) [Pubmed]
 
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