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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-11-9
pubmed:abstractText
Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system with an important role in nociceptive processing. Storage of glutamate into vesicles is controlled by vesicular glutamate transporters (VGLUT). Null mutants for VGLUT1 and VGLUT2 were poorly viable, thus, pain-related behavior was presently compared between heterozygote VGLUT1 and VGLUT2 mice and their respective wild-type littermates using a test battery that included a variety of assays for thermal and mechanical acute nociception, and inflammatory and neuropathic pain syndromes. Behavioral analysis of VGLUT1 mutant mice did not show important behavioral changes in the pain conditions tested. Reduction of VGLUT2 also resulted in unaltered acute nociceptive and inflammatory-induced pain behavior. Interestingly, VGLUT2 heterozygote mice showed an attenuation or absence of some typical neuropathic pain features (e.g., absence of mechanical and cold allodynia after spared nerve injury). Chronic constriction injury in VGLUT2 heterozygote mice showed also reduced levels of cold allodynia, but had no impact on mechanical thresholds. Together, these data suggest that VGLUT2, but not VGLUT1, plays a role in neuropathy-induced allodynia and hypersensitivity, and might be a therapeutic target to prevent and/or treat neuropathic pain.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1532-2149
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1008-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Ataxia, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Behavior, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Carrageenan, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Constriction, Pathologic, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Formaldehyde, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Hot Temperature, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Hyperalgesia, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Inflammation, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Peripheral Nervous System Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Physical Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Postural Balance, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Somatosensory Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Tibial Neuropathy, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Vesicular Glutamate Transport Protein 1, pubmed-meshheading:19171494-Vesicular Glutamate Transport Protein 2
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Impairment of VGLUT2 but not VGLUT1 signaling reduces neuropathy-induced hypersensitivity.
pubmed:affiliation
Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Turnhoutseweg 30, B-2340 Beerse, Belgium. Sandra.Leo@psy.kuleuven.be
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article