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- analgezie * MeSH
- bolest farmakoterapie MeSH
- COVID-19 * MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- neuropilin-1 metabolismus MeSH
- receptory vaskulárního endoteliálního růstového faktoru metabolismus MeSH
- SARS-CoV-2 metabolismus MeSH
- vaskulární endoteliální růstový faktor A metabolismus MeSH
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- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
This study aims to investigate whether intranetwork dynamic functional connectivity and causal interactions of the salience network is altered in the interictal term of migraine. Thirty-two healthy controls, 37 migraineurs without aura, and 20 migraineurs with aura were recruited. Participants underwent a T1-weighted scan and resting-state fMRI protocol inside a 1.5T MR scanner. We obtained average spatial maps of resting-state networks using group independent component analysis, which yielded subject-specific time series through a dual regression approach. Salience network regions of interest (bilateral insulae and prefrontal cortices, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex) were obtained from the group average map through cluster-based thresholding. To describe intranetwork connectivity, average and dynamic conditional correlation was calculated. Causal interactions between the default-mode, dorsal attention, and salience network were characterised by spectral Granger's causality. Time-averaged correlation was lower between the right insula and prefrontal cortex in migraine without aura vs with aura and healthy controls (P < 0.038, P < 0.037). Variance of dynamic conditional correlation was higher in migraine with aura vs healthy controls and migraine with aura vs without aura between the right insula and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (P < 0.011, P < 0.026), and in migraine with aura vs healthy controls between the dorsal anterior cingulate and left prefrontal cortex (P < 0.021). Causality was weaker in the <0.05 Hz frequency range between the salience and dorsal attention networks in migraine with aura (P < 0.032). Overall, migraineurs with aura exhibit more fluctuating connections in the salience network, which also affect network interactions, and could be connected to altered cortical excitability and increased sensory gain.
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- epilepsie MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- magnetická rezonanční tomografie MeSH
- mapování mozku MeSH
- migréna s aurou * MeSH
- nervová síť diagnostické zobrazování MeSH
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- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Homocysteinemia is a metabolic condition characterized by abnormally high level of homocysteine in the blood and is considered to be a risk factor for peripheral neuropathy. However, the cellular mechanisms underlying toxic effects of homocysteine on the processing of peripheral nociception have not yet been investigated comprehensively. Here, using a rodent model of experimental homocysteinemia, we report the causal association between homocysteine and the development of mechanical allodynia. Homocysteinemia-induced mechanical allodynia was reversed on pharmacological inhibition of T-type calcium channels. In addition, our in vitro studies indicate that homocysteine enhances recombinant T-type calcium currents by promoting the recycling of Cav3.2 channels back to the plasma membrane through a protein kinase C-dependent signaling pathway that requires the direct phosphorylation of Cav3.2 at specific loci. Altogether, these results reveal an unrecognized signaling pathway that modulates the expression of T-type calcium channels, and may potentially contribute to the development of peripheral neuropathy associated with homocysteinemia.
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- buněčná membrána metabolismus MeSH
- homocystein krev MeSH
- hyperalgezie etiologie metabolismus MeSH
- hyperhomocysteinemie komplikace MeSH
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- modely nemocí na zvířatech MeSH
- nemoci periferního nervového systému etiologie metabolismus MeSH
- nocicepce fyziologie MeSH
- potkani Wistar MeSH
- spinální ganglia metabolismus MeSH
- vápník metabolismus MeSH
- vápníkové kanály - typ T metabolismus MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
In this multicenter cross-sectional study, we determined sensory profiles of patients with (NL-1) and without neuropathic pain (NL-0) after nerve lesion and assessed immune-related systemic gene expression. Patients and matched healthy controls filled in questionnaires and underwent neurological examination, neurophysiological studies, quantitative sensory testing, and blood withdrawal. Neuropathic pain was present in 67/95 (71%) patients (NL-1). Tactile hyperalgesia was the most prominent clinical sign in NL-1 patients (P < 0.05). Questionnaires showed an association between neuropathic pain and the presence of depression, anxiety, and catastrophizing (P < 0.05 to P < 0.01). Neuropathic pain was frequently accompanied by other chronic pain (P < 0.05). Quantitative sensory testing showed ipsilateral signs of small and large fiber impairment compared to the respective contralateral side, with elevated thermal and mechanical detection thresholds (P < 0.001 to P < 0.05) and lowered pressure pain threshold (P < 0.05). Also, more loss of function was found in patients with NL-1 compared to NL-0. Pain intensity was associated with mechanical hyperalgesia (P < 0.05 to P < 0.01). However, quantitative sensory testing did not detect or predict neuropathic pain. Gene expression of peptidylglycine α-amidating monooxygenase was higher in NL patients compared with healthy controls (NL-1, P < 0.01; NL-0, P < 0.001). Also, gene expression of tumor necrosis factor-α was higher in NL-1 patients compared with NL-0 (P < 0.05), and interleukin-1ß was higher, but IL-10 was lower in NL-1 patients compared with healthy controls (P < 0.05 each). Our study reveals that nerve lesion presents with small and large nerve fiber dysfunction, which may contribute to the presence and intensity of neuropathic pain and which is associated with a systemic proinflammatory pattern.
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- dospělí MeSH
- exprese genu MeSH
- katastrofizace diagnóza genetika imunologie MeSH
- kohortové studie MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mediátory zánětu metabolismus MeSH
- měření bolesti metody MeSH
- mladiství MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
- nervová vlákna imunologie patologie MeSH
- neuralgie diagnóza genetika imunologie MeSH
- průřezové studie MeSH
- senioři nad 80 let MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- Check Tag
- dospělí MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mladiství MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- senioři nad 80 let MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- multicentrická studie MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
- srovnávací studie MeSH
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) typically develops after fracture or trauma. Many of the studies so far have analyzed clinical and molecular markers of CRPS in comparison with healthy or pain controls. This approach, however, neglects mechanisms occurring during physiological trauma recovery. Therefore, we compared the clinical phenotype, sensory profiles, patient-reported outcomes, and exosomal immunobarrier microRNAs (miRs) regulating barrier function and immune response between CRPS and fracture controls (FCs) not fulfilling the CRPS diagnostic criteria. We included upper-extremity FCs, acute CRPS I patients within 1 year after trauma, a second disease control group (painful diabetic polyneuropathy), and healthy controls. Fracture controls were not symptoms-free, but reported some pain, disability, anxiety, and cold pain hyperalgesia in quantitative sensory testing. Patients with CRPS had higher scores for pain, disability, and all patient-reported outcomes. In quantitative sensory testing, ipsilateral and contralateral sides differed significantly. However, on the affected side, patients with CRPS were more sensitive in only 3 parameters (pinprick pain and blunt pressure) when compared to FCs. Two principal components were identified in the cohort: pain and psychological parameters distinguishing FC and CPRS. Furthermore, the immunobarrier-protective hsa-miR-223-5p was increased in plasma exosomes in FCs with normal healing, but not in CRPS and healthy controls. Low hsa-miR-223-5p was particularly observed in subjects with edema pointing towards barrier breakdown. In summary, normal trauma healing includes some CRPS signs and symptoms. It is the combination of different factors that distinguish CRPS and FC. Fracture control as a control group can assist to discover resolution factors after trauma.
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- biologické markery krev MeSH
- dospělí MeSH
- exozómy genetika MeSH
- fraktury kostí krev diagnóza genetika MeSH
- hodnocení výsledků péče pacientem * MeSH
- hojení ran genetika MeSH
- komplexní regionální syndromy bolesti krev diagnóza genetika MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- měření bolesti metody trendy MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
- rány a poranění krev diagnóza genetika MeSH
- senioři nad 80 let MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- Check Tag
- dospělí MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- senioři nad 80 let MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- multicentrická studie MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) develops after fracture. The acute CRPS phenotype resembles exaggerated inflammation, which is explained by local and systemic activation of a proinflammatory network including peptides and cytokines. Epidemiologic data suggest that inactivation of the peptidase angiotensin-converting enzyme in patients treated for hypertension increases the odds to develop CRPS. This hint leads us to investigate the serum protease network activity in patients with CRPS vs respective controls. For this purpose, we developed a dabsyl-bradykinin (DBK)-based assay and used it to investigate patients with CRPS, as well as healthy and pain (painful diabetic neuropathy [dPNP]) controls. The major result is that the degradation of DBK to fragments 1-8 and 1-5 in healthy control and dPNP is shifted to higher values for DBK1-8 and lower values for DBK1-5 at 1 hour of incubation in patients with CRPS. Using this novel reporter peptide assay, we have been able to show that the resolving protease network for mediators such as BK might be different in patients with CRPS; having a look at the clinical signs, which resemble inflammation, this resolving protease network is probably less effective in CRPS.
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- angiotensin konvertující enzym krev MeSH
- bolest patofyziologie MeSH
- bradykinin farmakologie MeSH
- cytokiny krev MeSH
- diabetické neuropatie krev MeSH
- dospělí MeSH
- komplexní regionální syndromy bolesti krev patofyziologie MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- měření bolesti MeSH
- proteasy krev MeSH
- Sudeckův syndrom krev diagnóza MeSH
- zánět farmakoterapie MeSH
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- dospělí MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Different sensory profiles in diabetic distal symmetrical sensory-motor polyneuropathy (DSPN) may be associated with pain and the responsiveness to analgesia. We aimed to characterize sensory phenotypes of patients with painful and painless diabetic neuropathy and to assess demographic, clinical, metabolic, and electrophysiological parameters related to the presence of neuropathic pain in a large cohort of well-defined DSPN subjects. This observational cross-sectional multi-center cohort study (performed as part of the ncRNAPain EU consortium) of 232 subjects with nonpainful (n = 74) and painful (n = 158) DSPN associated with diabetes mellitus of type 1 and 2 (median age 63 years, range 21-87 years; 92 women) comprised detailed history taking, laboratory tests, neurological examination, quantitative sensory testing, nerve conduction studies, and neuropathy severity scores. All parameters were analyzed with regard to the presence and severity of neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain was positively correlated with the severity of neuropathy and thermal hyposensitivity (P < 0.001). A minority of patients with painful DSPN (14.6%) had a sensory profile, indicating thermal hypersensitivity that was associated with less severe neuropathy. Neuropathic pain was further linked to female sex and higher cognitive appraisal of pain as assessed by the pain catastrophizing scale (P < 0.001), while parameters related to diabetes showed no influence on neuropathic pain with the exception of laboratory signs of nephropathy. This study confirms the value of comprehensive DSPN phenotyping and underlines the importance of the severity of neuropathy for the presence of pain. Different sensory phenotypes might be useful for stratification of patients with painful DSPN for analgesic treatment and drug trials.
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- diabetické neuropatie diagnóza MeSH
- dospělí MeSH
- fenotyp * MeSH
- kohortové studie MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
- neuralgie diagnóza MeSH
- neurologické vyšetření metody MeSH
- polyneuropatie diagnóza MeSH
- průřezové studie MeSH
- rizikové faktory MeSH
- senioři nad 80 let MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- Check Tag
- dospělí MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- senioři nad 80 let MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
Crotalphine is a structural analogue to a novel analgesic peptide that was first identified in the crude venom from the South American rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus. Although crotalphine's analgesic effect is well established, its direct mechanism of action remains unresolved. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of crotalphine on ion channels in peripheral pain pathways. We found that picomolar concentrations of crotalphine selectively activate heterologously expressed and native TRPA1 ion channels. TRPA1 activation by crotalphine required intact N-terminal cysteine residues and was followed by strong and long-lasting desensitization of the channel. Homologous desensitization of recombinant TRPA1 and heterologous desensitization in cultured dorsal root ganglia neurons was observed. Likewise, crotalphine acted on peptidergic TRPA1-expressing nerve endings ex vivo as demonstrated by suppression of calcitonin gene-related peptide release from the trachea and in vivo by inhibition of chemically induced and inflammatory hypersensitivity in mice. The crotalphine-mediated desensitizing effect was abolished by the TRPA1 blocker HC030031 and absent in TRPA1-deficient mice. Taken together, these results suggest that crotalphine is the first peptide to mediate antinociception selectively and at subnanomolar concentrations by targeting TRPA1 ion channels.
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- akční potenciály účinky léků MeSH
- analgetika farmakologie terapeutické užití MeSH
- bradykinin toxicita MeSH
- HEK293 buňky MeSH
- hyperalgezie chemicky indukované farmakoterapie etiologie MeSH
- kationtové kanály TRP antagonisté a inhibitory genetika metabolismus MeSH
- kationtový kanál TRPA1 MeSH
- kultivované buňky MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- modely nemocí na zvířatech MeSH
- mutace genetika MeSH
- myši inbrední C57BL MeSH
- myši knockoutované MeSH
- myši MeSH
- neurony účinky léků metabolismus MeSH
- peptidy farmakologie terapeutické užití MeSH
- spinální ganglia cytologie MeSH
- vápník metabolismus MeSH
- zánět komplikace MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- zymosan toxicita MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- myši MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Surgical procedures associated with tissue injury are often followed by increased sensitivity to innocuous and noxious stimuli in the vicinity of the surgical wound. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 receptor (TRPV1) containing nociceptors in this process, by their functional inactivation using a high-concentration intradermal injection of capsaicin in a rat plantar incision model. Paw withdrawal responses to mechanical stimuli (von Frey filaments 10-367mN) and to radiant heat applied on plantar skin were tested in animals treated with capsaicin or the vehicle 6 days and 24h before or 2h after the incision was made. In the vehicle-treated animals, mechanical and thermal sensitivity increased significantly 1-96h following the incision. Capsaicin applied 24h before the surgery was most effective and significantly diminished the development of post-incisional mechanical allodynia and hyperalgesia. Thermal hypoalgesia was present in the incised paw after the capsaicin treatment. Capsaicin application 6 days before the incision induced thermal hypoalgesia before the incision but did not prevent completely the thermal hyperalgesia after the incision, while there was also a reduction of mechanical hypersensitivity. Application of the capsaicin injection after the incision showed its first effect at 2h after the injection and at 24h the effect was comparable with the 6 days pretreatment. Our results show an important role of TRPV1-containing nociceptors in the development of post-surgical hypersensitivity and suggest that local, high-concentration capsaicin treatment could be used to reduce it.
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- chování zvířat účinky léků MeSH
- financování organizované MeSH
- kapsaicin aplikace a dávkování MeSH
- kationtové kanály TRPV metabolismus MeSH
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- měření bolesti účinky léků MeSH
- modely nemocí na zvířatech MeSH
- nociceptory radiografie účinky léků MeSH
- pooperační bolest metabolismus prevence a kontrola MeSH
- potkani Wistar MeSH
- práh bolesti účinky léků MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
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- dospělí MeSH
- elektrická stimulace MeSH
- elektrokoagulace metody MeSH
- evokované potenciály účinky záření MeSH
- financování organizované MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- měření bolesti MeSH
- míšní kořeny chirurgie patofyziologie účinky záření MeSH
- nezvladatelná bolest chirurgie patofyziologie MeSH
- retrospektivní studie MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- Check Tag
- dospělí MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH