Spatial patterns of increased spinal cord membrane-bound protein kinase C and their relation to increases in 14C-2-deoxyglucose metabolic activity in rats with painful peripheral mononeuropathy - PubMed (original) (raw)

Spatial patterns of increased spinal cord membrane-bound protein kinase C and their relation to increases in 14C-2-deoxyglucose metabolic activity in rats with painful peripheral mononeuropathy

J Mao et al. J Neurophysiol. 1993 Aug.

Abstract

1. Three-dimensional spatial patterns of changes in membrane-bound protein kinase C (PKC) were examined in the lumbar spinal cords (L1-L5) of rats with an experimental painful peripheral mononeuropathy. Painful peripheral mononeuropathy was produced by loosely ligating the rat's common sciatic nerve, resulting in chronic constrictive nerve injury (CCI). Changes in spinal cord membrane-bound PKC distribution were assayed by employing an established quantitative [3H]-phorbol-12,13-dibutyrate ([3H]PDBu) autoradiographic assay, which includes spinal cord sectioning, incubation of spinal cord sections with [3H]PDBu, production of autoradiographs, and computer-assisted image processing. 2. Sciatic nerve ligation induced demonstrable thermal hyperalgesia in response to radiant heat stimulation and spontaneous pain-related behaviors (such as lifting of the nerve-ligated hind paw) in CCI rats 3, 7, and 10 days after unilateral sciatic nerve ligation. 3. Consistent with behavioral changes, CCI rats examined 3 or 10 days after sciatic nerve ligation displayed a three-dimensional pattern of increased membrane-bound PKC in the lumbar spinal cord (L1-L5) strikingly different from that of sham-operated rats: in the dorsoventral dimension, reliable increases in membrane-bound PKC occurred mainly within spinal cord laminae I-IV and V-VI in CCI rats; in the ipsilateral-contralateral dimension, changes in membrane-bound PKC were seen on both sides of the spinal cord in CCI rats with reliably higher levels of membrane-bound PKC on the side ipsilateral than on the side contralateral to sciatic nerve ligation; in the rostrocaudal dimension, increases in membrane-bound PKC in the spinal cord dorsal horns of CCI rats extended from spinal segments L2-L5. 4. Both three-dimensional increases in spinal cord membrane-bound PKC and nociceptive behaviors (thermal hyperalgesia and spontaneous pain behaviors) in CCI rats were reliably reduced after three daily intrathecal treatments with 80 nmol GM1 ganglioside (a glycosphingolipid shown to prevent PKC translocation/activation), the first of which was given 1 h after sciatic nerve ligation. This reduction was seen 24 h but not 7 days after the last GM1 ganglioside treatment. 5. This three-dimensional increase in membrane-bound PKC in the spinal cord dorsal horn of CCI rats displayed high correlations with thermal hyperalgesia and with spontaneous pain-related behaviors in CCI rats observed both 3 and 10 days after sciatic nerve ligation. Similar correlations were observed between decreases in levels of membrane-bound PKC in the spinal cord dorsal horn and the attenuation of nociceptive behaviors in CCI rats after three daily intrathecal treatments with GM1 ganglioside.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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Spatial patterns of increased spinal cord membrane-bound protein kinase C and their relation to increases in 14C-2-deoxyglucose metabolic activity in rats with painful peripheral mononeuropathy - PubMed (original) (raw)