• Anesthesia and analgesia · Oct 2011

    Lidocaine attenuates the development of diabetic-induced tactile allodynia by inhibiting microglial activation.

    • Naoko Suzuki, Maiko Hasegawa-Moriyama, Yoshika Takahashi, Yuji Kamikubo, Takashi Sakurai, and Eiichi Inada.
    • Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan.
    • Anesth. Analg.. 2011 Oct 1;113(4):941-6.

    BackgroundLidocaine is used clinically for tactile allodynia associated with diabetes-induced neuropathy. Although the analgesic effect of lidocaine through suppression of microglial activation has been implicated in the development of injury-induced neuropathic pain, its mechanism of action in diabetes-induced tactile allodynia has not yet been completely elucidated.MethodsTo evaluate the effects of lidocaine on microglial response in diabetic neuropathy, streptozotocin (STZ)-injected mice received a continuous infusion of lidocaine (vehicle, 2, or 10%) from day 14 to day 21 after STZ injection. On day 21, microglial accumulation and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase activation in the dorsal horn were evaluated. In vitro, the effects of lidocaine on cell viability, chemotactic response to monocyte chemotactic protein-1, and induction of proinflammatory mediators were examined in interferon (IFN)-γ-stimulated primary microglial cells.ResultsContinuous systemic administration of lidocaine in the early progression of tactile allodynia produced long-lasting analgesic effects in STZ-treated mice. Lidocaine significantly reduced accumulation and p38 phosphorylation of microglial cells in the dorsal horn. In vitro, lidocaine down-regulated IFN-γ-induced gene induction of inducible oxide synthase and interleukin-1β. Pretreatment with lidocaine significantly reduced chemotactic response to monocyte chemotactic protein-1 of IFN-γ-activated microglial cells.ConclusionLidocaine alleviates STZ-induced tactile allodynia, possibly by modulating the p38 pathway in spinal microglial cells. Inhibiting microglial activation by lidocaine treatment early in the course of diabetes-induced neuropathy represents a potential therapeutic strategy for tactile allodynia.

      Pubmed     Free full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    This article appears in the collection: Hyperalgaesia.

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…