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Subsensitivity of P2X but not vanilloid 1 receptors in dorsal root ganglia of rats caused by cyclophosphamide cystitis.

The application of cyclophosphamide to rats was used to induce interstitial cystitis. Behavioural studies indicated a strong pain reaction that developed within 2 h and levelled off thereafter causing a constant pain during the following 18 h. Neurons prepared from L6/S1 dorsal root ganglia innervating the urinary bladder responded to the application of capsaicin or alpha,beta-methylene ATP (alpha,beta-meATP) with an increase of intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i). The [Ca2+]i responses to capsaicin were identical in the dorsal root ganglion cells of cyclophosphamide- and saline-treated rats, whereas alpha,beta-meATP induced less increase in [Ca2+]i in the cyclophosphamide-treated animals than in their saline-treated counterparts. Hence, alpha,beta-meATP-sensitive P2X3 and/or P2X2/3 receptors of L6/S1 dorsal root ganglion neurons were functionally downregulated during subacute pain caused by experimental cystitis. In contrast, capsaicin-sensitive vanilloid 1 receptors did not react to the same procedure. Thoracal dorsal root ganglia, not innervating the urinary bladder, were also unaltered in their responsiveness to alpha,beta-meATP by cyclophosphamide treatment.[1]

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  1. Subsensitivity of P2X but not vanilloid 1 receptors in dorsal root ganglia of rats caused by cyclophosphamide cystitis. Borvendeg, S.J., Al-Khrasani, M., Rubini, P., Fischer, W., Allgaier, C., Wirkner, K., Himmel, H.M., Gillen, C., Illes, P. Eur. J. Pharmacol. (2003) [Pubmed]
 
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