2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Establishment of trigeminal neuralgia model and role of ATP receptor for neuropathic pain
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16591531
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Anesthesiology/Resuscitation studies
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| Research Institution | Hirosaki University |
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Principal Investigator |
UENO Shinya Hirosaki University, School of Medicine, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (00312158)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HAYAKARI Makoto Hirosaki University, School of Medicine, Assistant Professor, 医学部, 助教授 (80156421)
MORIYAMA Tomoko Hirosaki University, School of Medicine, Assistant, 医学部, 助手 (90400134)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | neuropathic pain / patch clamp / GABA typeA receptor / P2 receptor |
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| Research Abstract |
ATP receptors play an important role of establishment of neuropathic pain. Moreove, it has been found that a major inhibitory neurotransmitter, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) functions as an excitatory neurotransmitter through ATP receptor activation. Intracellular Cl^- concentration of normal neurons is less than 10 mM, and external Cl concentration in the brain is around 120-130mM. Under these conditions, GABA causes inward flux of Cl^- through GABA typeA channels. In contrast, when intracellular Cl^- concentration increases during development stage of neuros and peripheral nerve injury, GABA cause outward flux of Cl^-. Consequently, GABA relase resulted in neuronal excitation. This change of GABA function is also found in neuropathic pain model. Thus, functions of cloride transporters were investigated, using electorphysilogical approach and yeast two-hybrid system in this period.
The yeast two-hybrid system revealed that neuron-specific K^+-Cl^- cotransporter, KCC2, interacted with brain-type creatine kinase. In addition, using HEK293 cells stablly expressed KCC2, brain-type creatine kinase activated KCC2,resulting in an increase of intracellular Cl^-.
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