番红花苷
人口高峰
长时程增强
麻醉
人口
药理学
海马结构
高架加迷宫
突触可塑性
开阔地
医学
神经科学
心理学
内科学
焦虑
受体
精神科
环境卫生
作者
Lida Tahmasebi,Fariba Bahrami,Hedayat Sahraei,Zeinab Shankaei,Shima Shahyad,Zahra Bahari
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.brainresbull.2022.10.007
摘要
Patients with chronic pain exhibit anxiety and deficits in memory. Additionally, α2-adrenoceptors that are wildly expressed in the brain have an important role in modulating both pain and memory formation. In the present study, we investigated the interaction effects of crocin with central α2-adrenoceptors on pain comorbidity and hippocampal synaptic plasticity changes following chronic constriction injury (CCI) of the sciatic nerve in rats. All the drugs (crocin, an antagonist (yohimbine) and agonist (clonidine) of α2-adrenergic receptors) were injected (via intracerebroventricular injection) from the day of CCI operation (day 0) and continued daily (once per day) until the 14th day post-CCI. The effects of drugs on the cold allodynia (using acetone test) and anxiety-like behaviors (using elevated plus maze, EPM and open field tests) were assessed. Spatial memory (using Barnes maze) was assessed on day 14 post-CCI operation. Hippocampal synaptic plasticity (using in-vivo extracellular field potential recording) was performed on day 14 post-CCI operation. We observed that crocin induced analgesic, anxiolytic and memory enhancer action following CCI surgery. Furthermore, crocin significantly increased long-term potentiation (LTP) (increased fEPSP slope and population spike amplitude). Furthermore, the co-injection of yohimbine effectively decreased analgesic, anxiolytic and enhancer action of crocin on the LTP parameters (fEPSP slope and population spike amplitude). Our study provided information that protective effects of crocin on pain/anxiety responses and synaptic plasticity were possibly mediated by central α2-adrenoceptor in the rats with chronic pain.
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