• J. Neurophysiol. · Dec 2006

    Perceptual correlate of nociceptive long-term potentiation (LTP) in humans shares the time course of early-LTP.

    • Thomas Klein, Walter Magerl, and Rolf-Detlef Treede.
    • Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Saarstrasse 21, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
    • J. Neurophysiol. 2006 Dec 1;96(6):3551-5.

    AbstractAs in neocortex and hippocampus, neurons in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord develop long-term potentiation of synaptic efficacy (LTP) on high-frequency stimulation (HFS) of their afferent input, although how long LTP lasts in this nociceptive relay nucleus has not yet been addressed. Here we studied neurogenic hyperalgesia, a perceptual correlate of nociceptive LTP, in 13 healthy subjects, after HFS (5 x 1 s at 100 Hz) of superficial cutaneous afferents. HFS led to a mean upward shift of the stimulus-response function for pinprick-evoked pain (punctate mechanical hyperalgesia) in all subjects by a factor of 2.5 (P < 0.001) that lasted undiminished for the initial 1-h observation period. Follow-up tests until the next day revealed that this type of neurogenic hyperalgesia decayed with a t(1/2) of 3.3 h (99% CI: 3.1-3.5 h) and disappeared completely within 25.4 h (99% CI: 20.4-31.6 h). Touch-evoked pain (dynamic mechanical allodynia) developed in eight of 13 subjects, decayed with a t(1/2) of 2.9 h from the maximum and disappeared within 9.3 h. These findings suggest that a single HFS session induces nociceptive LTP in healthy subjects that corresponds to early-LTP (LTP1), implying primarily posttranslational mechanisms for this type of plasticity of human pain perception.

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