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Dorsal Horn Circuits for Persistent Mechanical Pain
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Persistent mechanical hypersensitivity that occurs in the setting of injury or disease remains a major clinical problem largely because the underlying neural circuitry is still not known. Here we report the functional identification of key components of the elusive dorsal horn circuit for mechanical allodynia. We show that the transient expression of VGLUT3 by a discrete population of neurons in the deep dorsal horn is required for mechanical pain and that activation of the cells in the adult conveys mechanical hypersensitivity. The cells, which receive direct low threshold input, point to a novel location for circuit initiation. Subsequent analysis of c-Fos reveals the circuit extends dorsally to nociceptive lamina I projection neurons, and includes lamina II calretinin neurons, which we show also convey mechanical allodynia. Lastly, using inflammatory and neuropathic pain models, we show that multiple microcircuits in the dorsal horn encode this form of pain.
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- Authors
- Peirs, C., Williams, S.-P. G., Zhao, X., Walsh, C. E., Gedeon, J. Y., Cagle, N. E., Goldring, A. C., Hioki, H., Liu, Z., Marell, P. S., & Seal, R. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Kyoto University (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Seal, Rebecca P.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-08
- Volume
- 87
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 797-812
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4562334
- OpenAlex
- W2169382112
- Cited by
- 327
- References
- 51
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- FWCI
- 23.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
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- Neuron (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (UL1TR000005)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15K14333, 15H01430)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS084191, T32NS007433, R21NS084191)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Pain Management and Treatment
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Sensory Systems › Ion Channels and Receptors
- Keywords
- dorsal horn, mechanical allodynia, mechanical hypersensitivity, VGLUT3, glutamate uptake, lamina II, nociceptive circuits, neuropathic pain, inflammatory pain, chronic pain
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Hyperalgesia, Nerve Net, Organ Culture Techniques, Pain, Touch, Mice, Knockout, Amino Acid Transport Systems, Acidic, Mice, Spinal Cord Dorsal Horn
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