• Reg Anesth Pain Med · Feb 2020

    Sonic hedgehog signaling pathway promotes pancreatic cancer pain via nerve growth factor.

    • Liang Han, Jie Jiang, Mengwen Xue, Tao Qin, Ying Xiao, Erxi Wu, Xin Shen, Qingyong Ma, and Jiguang Ma.
    • Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xi'an Jiaotong University Medical College First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
    • Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2020 Feb 1; 45 (2): 137-144.

    BackgroundMany patients with pancreatic cancer (PC) suffer from abdominal pain and back pain. However, the cause of pain associated with PC is largely unclear. In this study, we tested the potential influence of the sonic hedgehog (sHH) signaling pathway on PC pain.MethodsSubstance P (SP) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) expression was measured in cultured PC cells and dorsal root ganglions (DRG) by real-time PCR, western blotting analysis and ELISA. Small interfering RNA transfection and plasmid constructs were used to regulate the expression of sHH in the AsPc-1 and Panc-1 cell lines. Pain-related behavior was observed in an orthotopic tumor model in nude mice.ResultsIn this study, the results show that sHH increased the expression of SP and CGRP in DRGs in a concentration and time-dependent manner. Additionally, sHH secretion from PC cells could activate the sHH signaling pathway and, in turn, increase the expression of nerve growth factor (NGF), P75, and TrkA in DRGs. Furthermore, the sHH signaling pathway and NGF/NGF receptor contributed to pain sensitivity in a nude mouse model.ConclusionOur results demonstrate that PC pain originates from the sHH signaling pathway, and NGF mediates the pain mechanism via regulating SP and CGRP.© American Society of Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ.

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