2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Elucidation of nociceptive pathways using c-fos eGFP transgenic rats
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26860164
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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 |
Environmental physiology(including physical medicine and nutritional physiology)
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| Research Institution | University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 慢性疼痛 / 最初期遺伝子 / 視床下部 / 遺伝子改変動物 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We evaluated whether a c-fos-enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) transgenic rat line can be useful for the study of nociceptive pathways and processing. A comparison of eGFP in transgenic rats and Fos-like immunoreactivity (LI) in wild type rats was made in the dorsal spinal cord, paraventricular nucleus (PVN) and supraoptic nucleus (SON). Oxytocin-LI (OXT-LI) was carried out to examine the activation of OXT neurons in the PVN and SON. Following acute nociceptive stimuli, eGFP was maximally expressed at 6 h in the spinal cord and 3 h in the PVN and SON, whereas, Fos-LI was maximally expressed at 1.5 h in all the regions we analyzed. Induction of eGFP in the OXT neurons was more sensitive than that of Fos after acute nociceptive stimuli. These results suggested that the c-fos-eGFP transgenic rat line can be useful for the study of nociceptive pathways and processing.
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| Free Research Field |
慢性疼痛
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