2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Pregnancy suppresses mechanical allodynia by reducing c-fos in the spinal dorsal horn in the chronic constriction injury rat model
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24791577
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Anesthesiology/Resuscitation studies
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| Research Institution | Asahikawa Medical College |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 妊娠 / 神経障害性疼痛 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Pregnancy has been reported to increase the pain threshold. We focused on neuron activation in the spinal cord, and used the chronic constriction injury (CCI) rat model to test the hypothesis that pregnancy reverses upregulated c-Fos in spinal cord cells.
Pregnancy significantly reversed the lowered mechanical threshold induced by CCI neuropathic pain. Pain threshold is elevated just before delivery, and decreases after delivery. Furthermore, pregnancy reduced the upregulation of c-Fos in the spinal dorsal horn in the CCI model.
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| Free Research Field |
神経障害性疼痛
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