The role of ryanodine receptors (RyRs) in the induction of muscarinic antinociception was investigated in a condition of acute thermal pain by means of the mouse hot-plate test. I.c.v. administration of non-hyperalgesic doses of ryanodine (0.001–0.06 nmol per mouse i.c.v.), an antagonist of ryanodine receptors (RyRs), dose-dependently prevented the antinociception induced by both physostigmine (100–150g kg−1 s.c.) and oxotremorine (40–70 g kg−1 s.c.). A shift to the right of the dose–response curve of both cholinomimetic compounds was observed. Pretreatment with non-analgesic doses of 4-chloro-m-cresol (4-Cmc; 0.003–0.3 nmol per mouse i.c.v.), an agonist of RyRs, reversed in a dosedependent manner the antagonistic effect produced by ryanodine of muscarinic antinociception. The pharmacological treatments employed neither modified the animals’ gross behavior nor produced any behavioral impairment of mice as revealed by the rota-rod and hole-board tests. These results indicate that a variation of intracellular calcium contents at the central nervous system level is involved in muscarinic antinociception. In particular, the stimulation of RyRs appears to play an important role in the increase of the pain threshold produced by physostigmine and oxotremorine in mice.
Ryanodine receptors are involved in muscarinic antinociception in mice / Nicoletta Galeotti; Alessandro Bartolini; Carla Ghelardini. - In: BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH. - ISSN 0166-4328. - STAMPA. - 164:(2005), pp. 165-171. [10.1016/j.bbr.2005.06.011]
Ryanodine receptors are involved in muscarinic antinociception in mice.
GALEOTTI, NICOLETTA;BARTOLINI, ALESSANDRO;GHELARDINI, CARLA
2005
Abstract
The role of ryanodine receptors (RyRs) in the induction of muscarinic antinociception was investigated in a condition of acute thermal pain by means of the mouse hot-plate test. I.c.v. administration of non-hyperalgesic doses of ryanodine (0.001–0.06 nmol per mouse i.c.v.), an antagonist of ryanodine receptors (RyRs), dose-dependently prevented the antinociception induced by both physostigmine (100–150g kg−1 s.c.) and oxotremorine (40–70 g kg−1 s.c.). A shift to the right of the dose–response curve of both cholinomimetic compounds was observed. Pretreatment with non-analgesic doses of 4-chloro-m-cresol (4-Cmc; 0.003–0.3 nmol per mouse i.c.v.), an agonist of RyRs, reversed in a dosedependent manner the antagonistic effect produced by ryanodine of muscarinic antinociception. The pharmacological treatments employed neither modified the animals’ gross behavior nor produced any behavioral impairment of mice as revealed by the rota-rod and hole-board tests. These results indicate that a variation of intracellular calcium contents at the central nervous system level is involved in muscarinic antinociception. In particular, the stimulation of RyRs appears to play an important role in the increase of the pain threshold produced by physostigmine and oxotremorine in mice.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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