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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-7-24
pubmed:abstractText
Nerve injury elicits both universal and limited responses. Among the former is regenerative growth, which occurs in most peripheral neurons, and among the latter is the long-term hyperexcitability that appears selectively in nociceptive sensory neurons. Since positive injury signals communicate information from the site of an injury to the cell body, we hypothesize that a nerve injury activates both universal and limited positive injury signals. Studies in Aplysia indicate that protein kinase G is a limited signal that is responsible for the induction of long-term hyperexcitability. Given that long-term hyperexcitability contributes to chronic pain after axotomy in rodent neuropathic pain models, we investigated its underlying basis in the rat peripheral nervous system. Using biochemical assays, Western blots, and immunocytochemistry we found that the Type 1alpha protein kinase G is the predominant isoform in the rat periphery. It is present primarily in axons and cell bodies of nociceptive neurons, including populations that are isolectin B4-positive, isolectin B4-negative, and those that express transient receptor potential vanilloid receptor-1. Surprisingly, protein kinase G is not present in the facial nerve, which overwhelmingly contains axons of motor neurons. Crushing the sciatic nerve or a cutaneous sensory nerve activates protein kinase G in axons and results in its retrograde transport to the neuronal somata in the DRG. Preventing the activation of protein kinase G by injecting Rp-8-pCPT-cGMPS into the crush site abolished the transport. The protein kinase A inhibitor Rp-8-pCPT-cAMPS had no effect. Extracellular signal-related kinases 42/44 are also activated and transported after nerve crush, but in both motor and sensory axons. Chronic pain has been linked to long-term hyperexcitability following a nerve inflammation in several rodent models. We therefore injected complete Freund's adjuvant into the hindpaw to induce an inflammation and found that protein kinase G was activated in the sural nerve and transported to the DRG. In contrast, the extracellular signal-related kinases in the sensory axons were not activated by the complete Freund's adjuvant. These studies support the idea that the extracellular signal-related kinases are universal positive axonal signals and that protein kinase G is a limited positive axonal signal. They also establish the association between protein kinase G, the induction of long-term hyperexcitability, and chronic pain in rodents.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/8-(4-chlorophenylthio)guanosine..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cyclic GMP, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Enzyme Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Freund's Adjuvant, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Neurofilament Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/S100 Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/TRPV Cation Channels, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Thionucleotides, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Trpv1 protein, rat, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/neurofilament protein H
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0306-4522
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
25
pubmed:volume
141
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
697-709
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Axons, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Cell Count, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Cyclic GMP, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Enzyme Activation, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Freund's Adjuvant, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Ganglia, Spinal, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Inflammation, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Male, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Neurofilament Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Neurons, Afferent, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Nociceptors, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Protein Transport, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-S100 Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Sciatic Neuropathy, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-TRPV Cation Channels, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Thionucleotides, pubmed-meshheading:16730916-Time Factors
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Activation and retrograde transport of protein kinase G in rat nociceptive neurons after nerve injury and inflammation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA. yjs8@columbia.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural