Insular cortex representation of dynamic mechanical allodynia in trigeminal neuropathic rats - Neuro-Dol
Article Dans Une Revue Neurobiology of Disease Année : 2009

Insular cortex representation of dynamic mechanical allodynia in trigeminal neuropathic rats

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Dynamic mechanical allodynia is a widespread symptom of neuropathic pain for which mechanisms are still poorly understood. The present study investigated the organization of dynamic mechanical allodynia processing in the rat insular cortex after chronic constriction injury to the infraorbital nerve (IoN-CCI). Two weeks after unilateral IoN-CCI, rats showed a dramatic bilateral trigeminal dynamic mechanical allodynia. Light, moving stroking of the infraorbital skin resulted in strong, bilateral upregulation of extracellular-signal regulated kinase phosphorylation (pERK-1/2) in the insular cortex of IoN-CCI animals but not sham rats, in whose levels were similar to those of unstimulated IoN-CCI rats. pERK-1/2 was located in neuronal cells only. Stimulus-evoked pERK-1/2 immunopositive cell bodies displayed rostrocaudal gradient and layer selective distribution in the insula, being predominant in the rostral insula and in layers II-III of the dysgranular and to a lesser extent, of the agranular insular cortex. In layers II-III of the rostral dysgranular insular cortex, intense pERK also extended into distal dendrites, up to layer I. These results demonstrate that trigeminal nerve injury induces a significant alteration in the insular cortex processing of tactile stimuli and suggest that ERK phosphorylation contributes to the mechanisms underlying abnormal pain perception under this condition.

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hal-04722363 , version 1 (05-10-2024)

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Pedro Alvarez, Wisam Dieb, Aziz Hafidi, Daniel L Voisin, Radhouane Dallel. Insular cortex representation of dynamic mechanical allodynia in trigeminal neuropathic rats. Neurobiology of Disease, 2009, 33 (1), pp.89-95. ⟨10.1016/j.nbd.2008.09.003⟩. ⟨hal-04722363⟩
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