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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-1-19
pubmed:abstractText
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. We demonstrated the crucial role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) in the negative affective component of somatic and visceral pain induced by intraplantar formalin and intraperitoneal acetic acid injections, respectively, in rats. Recently, we reported the involvement of enhanced noradrenergic transmission via beta-adrenoceptors within the ventral BNST (vBNST) in formalin-induced aversion. Here, we examined the role of intra-vBNST noradrenergic transmission in the negative affective component of visceral pain induced by intraperitoneal acetic acid injection. In vivo microdialysis showed that extracellular noradrenaline levels within the vBNST significantly increased after intraperitoneal acetic acid injection. Using a conditioned place aversion (CPA) test, we found that intra-vBNST injection of timolol, a beta-adrenoceptor antagonist, dose-dependently attenuated the acetic acid-induced CPA without reducing nociceptive behaviors. These results suggest that enhanced noradrenergic transmission via beta-adrenoceptors within the vBNST plays a pivotal role in the negative affective, but not sensory, component of visceral pain.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1872-7549
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
11
pubmed:volume
197
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
279-83
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Acetic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Adrenergic beta-Antagonists, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Analysis of Variance, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Avoidance Learning, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Conditioning (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Injections, Intraperitoneal, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Microdialysis, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Neural Pathways, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Norepinephrine, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Pain, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Pain Measurement, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Pain Threshold, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Septal Nuclei, pubmed-meshheading:18793681-Timolol
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Role of enhanced noradrenergic transmission within the ventral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in visceral pain-induced aversion in rats.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku Kita 12 Nishi 6, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't