title: Screening the role of pronociceptive molecules in a rodent model of endometriosis pain.
abstract: Chronic pain is a major symptom in patients with endometriosis, a common gynecologic condition affecting women in their reproductive years. Although many proalgesic substances are produced by endometriosis lesions, experimental evidence supporting their relative roles is still lacking. Furthermore, it is unclear whether these proalgesic agents directly activate nociceptors to induce endometriosis pain. To determine their relative contribution to pain associated with endometriosis, we evaluated the intrathecal administration of oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) antisense to messenger RNA for receptors for 3 pronociceptive mediators known to be produced by the ectopic endometrium. Two weeks after the implant of autologous uterine tissue onto the gastrocnemius muscle, local mechanical hyperalgesia was observed in operated rats. Intrathecal antisense ODN targeting messenger RNA for the interleukin 6 receptor-signaling complex subunit glycoprotein 130 and the nerve growth factor tyrosine kinase receptor A, but not their mismatch ODNs, reversibly attenuated mechanical hyperalgesia at the implant site. In contrast, intrathecal antisense ODN targeting the tumor necrosis factor receptor 1, at a dose that markedly inhibited intramuscularly injected tumor necrosis factor alpha, had only a small antihyperalgesic effect in this model. These results indicate the relative contribution of pronociceptive mediators produced by ectopic endometrial tissue to endometriosis pain. The experimental approach presented here provides a novel method to evaluate for the differential contribution of mediators produced by other painful lesions as well as endometriosis lesions as targets for novel treatment of pain syndromes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This article presents evidence for the relative contribution of proalgesic mediators to primary hyperalgesia displayed by rats submitted to a model of endometriosis pain. This approach can be used to identify potential targets for the treatment of endometriosis pain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Division of Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Alvarez
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Division of Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Electronic address: jon.levine@ucsf.edu.
authors.forename: Jon D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Levine
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D050822:Cytokine Receptor gp130 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D016207:Cytokines / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000150:complications*; D030762:Estrous Cycle; D005260:Female; D006930:Hyperalgesia / Q000503:physiopathology; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D020319:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides, Antisense / Q000008:administration & dosage; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D020917:Receptor, trkA / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D013997:Time Factors; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines; D015850:Interleukin-6; D020319:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides, Antisense; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D050822:Cytokine Receptor gp130; D020917:Receptor, trkA
keywords: Antisense; chronic pain models; hyperalgesia; nociceptor
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