Behavioral indices of ongoing pain are largely unchanged in male mice with tissue or nerve injury-induced mechanical hypersensitivity.
Despite the impact of chronic pain on the quality of life in patients, including changes to affective state and daily life activities, rodent preclinical models rarely address this aspect of chronic pain. To better understand the behavioral consequences of the tissue and nerve injuries typically used to model neuropathic and inflammatory pain in mice, we measured home cage and affective state behaviors in animals with spared nerve injury, chronic constriction injury (CCI), or intraplantar complete Freund's adjuvant. Mechanical hypersensitivity is prominent in each of these conditions and persists for many weeks. Home cage behavior was continuously monitored for 16 days in a system that measures locomotion, feeding, and drinking, and allows for precise analysis of circadian patterns. When monitored after injury, animals with spared nerve injury and complete Freund's adjuvant behaved no differently from controls in any aspect of daily life. Animals with CCI were initially less active, but the difference between CCI and controls disappeared by 2 weeks after injury. Further, in all pain models, there was no change in any measure of affective state. We conclude that in these standard models of persistent pain, despite the development of prolonged hypersensitivity, the mice do not have significantly altered "quality of life." As alteration in daily life activities is the feature that is so disrupted in patients with chronic pain, our results suggest that the models used here do not fully reflect the human conditions and point to a need for development of a murine chronic pain model in which lifestyle changes are manifest.
Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY 11032, USA Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Rochelle
R
Urban
Gregory
G
Scherrer
Evan H
EH
Goulding
Laurence H
LH
Tecott
Allan I
AI
Basbaum
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000818:Animals; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D002940:Circadian Rhythm / Q000502:physiology; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005106:Exploratory Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D006930:Hyperalgesia / Q000209:etiology*; D007249:Inflammation / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000150:complications*; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000009:adverse effects; D008124:Locomotion / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D012585:Sciatica / Q000150:complications*
D008070:Lipopolysaccharides
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