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- Title
Attenuation of inflammatory and neuropathic pain behaviors in mice through activation of free fatty acid receptor GPR40.
- Authors
Karki, Prasanna; Takashi Kurihara; Tomoya Nakamachi; Jun Watanabe; Toshihide Asada; Tatsuki Oyoshi; Seiji Shioda; Megumu Yoshimura; Kazunori Arita; Atsuro Miyata
- Abstract
Background: The G-protein-coupled receptor 40 (GPR40) is suggested to function as a transmembrane receptor for medium- to long-chain free fatty acids and is implicated to play a role in free fatty acids-mediated enhancement of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion from pancreas. However, the functional role of GPR40 in nervous system including somatosensory pain signaling has not been fully examined yet. Results: Intrathecal injection of GPR40 agonist (MEDICA16 or GW9508) dose-dependently reduced ipsilateral mechanical allodynia in CFA and SNL models and thermal hyperalgesia in carrageenan model. These anti-allodynic and anti-hyperalgesic effects were almost completely reversed by a GPR40 antagonist, GW1100. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that GPR40 is expressed in spinal dorsal horn and dorsal root ganglion neurons, and immunoblot analysis showed that carrageenan or CFA inflammation or spinal nerve injury resulted in increased expression of GPR40 in these areas. Patch-clamp recordings from spinal cord slices exhibited that bath-application of either MEDICA16 or GW9508 significantly decreased the frequency of spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents in the substantia gelatinosa neurons of the three pain models. Conclusions: Our results indicate that GPR40 signaling pathway plays an important suppressive role in spinal nociceptive processing after inflammation or nerve injury, and that GPR40 agonists might serve as a new class of analgesics for treating inflammatory and neuropathic pain.
- Subjects
G protein coupled receptors; FATTY acids; LABORATORY mice; ANALGESIA; ALLODYNIA
- Publication
Molecular Pain, 2015, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1744-8069
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12990-015-0003-8