Neuroscience research
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Neuroscience research · Jun 2015
Modulation of spinal glial reactivity by intrathecal PPF is not sufficient to inhibit mechanical allodynia induced by nerve crush.
Spinal glial reactivity has been strongly implicated in pain that follows peripheral nerve injury. Among the many therapeutic agents that have been tested for anti-allodynia through immune modulation is the atypical methylxanthine propentofylline. ⋯ Microglial/macrophage Iba-1 and astrocytic GFAP expression, increased in the dorsal horn of nerve crushed animals, was, however, effectively attenuated by propentofylline. Effective modulation of spinal glial reactivity is, thus, no assurance for anti-allodynia.