Marco Sisignano, Carlo Angioni, Chul-Kyu Park, Sascha Meyer Dos Santos, Holger Jordan, Maria Kuzikov, Di Liu, Sebastian Zinn, Stephan W Hohman, Yannick Schreiber, Béla Zimmer, Mike Schmidt, Ruirui Lu, Jing Suo, Dong-Dong Zhang, Stephan M G Schäfer, Martine Hofmann, Ajay S Yekkirala, Natasja de Bruin, Michael J Parnham, Clifford J Woolf, Ru-Rong Ji, Klaus Scholich, Gerd Geisslinger
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathic pain (CIPNP) is a severe dose- and therapy-limiting side effect of widely used cytostatics that is particularly difficult to treat. Here, we report increased expression of the cytochrome-P450 -epoxygenase CYP2J6 and increased concentrations of its linoleic acid metabolite 9,10-EpOME (9,10-epoxy-12Z-octadecenoic acid) in dorsal root ganglia (DRGs) of paclitaxel-treated mice as a model of CIPNP. The lipid sensitizes TRPV1 ion channels in primary sensory neurons and causes increased frequency of spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents in spinal cord nociceptive neurons, increased CGRP release from sciatic nerves and DRGs, and a reduction in mechanical and thermal pain hypersensitivity...
November 1, 2016: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America