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Enrichment of Adult Mouse Dorsal Root Ganglia Neuron Cultures by Immunopanning
Published on: February 24, 2023
Relationship between neuronal nitric oxide synthase and NADPH-diaphorase in the dorsal root ganglia during
Hyun Sook Cho1, Yong Sup Shin1, Young Ho Lee1
1Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital, Daejeon, Korea.
Background:
Changes in nitric oxide (NO) production in the dorsal root ganglia (DRG) may contribute to allodynia after nerve injury. It is known that the histochemistry of NADPH-diaphorase (NADPH-d) is known to be not always coincident with NOS. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between nNOS and NADPH-d expression in the DRG in a spinal nerve injury model of neuropathic pain, and to elucidate role that NO plays in neuropathic pain.
Methods:
nNOS immunohistochemistry and/or NADHP-d histochemistry were conducted in the DRG of a spinal nerve transection model of neuropathic pain, and the pain behavior was then measured by a von Frey filament test of the hindpaws of wild type and nNOS knock-out mice.
Results:
nNOS immunoreactive neurons and NADPH-d stained neurons were not always identical. Additionally NADPH-d increased, but nNOS did not increase significantly in the DRG after spinal nerve transection. Neuropathic pain behavior increased in the hindpaw of nNOS(-/-) mice after spinal nerve transection, but was lower than that of wild type mice after spinal nerve transection.
Conclusions:
nNOS immunoreactive neurons and NADPH-d stained neurons were not always identical in the DRG, and a novel NADPH-d positive source may be involved in neuropathic pain after spinal nerve transection. Changes in nNOS expression in the DRG were not the primary cause of neuropathic pain behavior in a spinal nerve transection model of neuropathic pain.
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