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Identification of spinal circuits involved in touch-evoked dynamic mechanical pain.
Nature Neuroscience 2017 June
Mechanical hypersensitivity is a debilitating symptom for millions of chronic pain patients. It exists in distinct forms, including brush-evoked dynamic and filament-evoked punctate hypersensitivities. We reduced dynamic mechanical hypersensitivity induced by nerve injury or inflammation in mice by ablating a group of adult spinal neurons defined by developmental co-expression of VGLUT3 and Lbx1 (VT3Lbx1 neurons): the mice lost brush-evoked nocifensive responses and conditional place aversion. Electrophysiological recordings show that VT3Lbx1 neurons form morphine-resistant polysynaptic pathways relaying inputs from low-threshold Aβ mechanoreceptors to lamina I output neurons. The subset of somatostatin-lineage neurons preserved in VT3Lbx1 -neuron-ablated mice is largely sufficient to mediate morphine-sensitive and morphine-resistant forms of von Frey filament-evoked punctate mechanical hypersensitivity. Furthermore, acute silencing of VT3Lbx1 neurons attenuated pre-established dynamic mechanical hypersensitivity induced by nerve injury, suggesting that these neurons may be a cellular target for treating this form of neuropathic pain.
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