Neurophysiological response properties of medullary pain-control neurons following chronic treatment with morphine or oxycodone: Modulation by acute ketamine
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Neurophysiological response properties of medullary pain-control neurons following chronic treatment with morphine or oxycodone : Modulation by acute ketamine. / Viisanen, Hanna; Lilius, Tuomas O.; Sagalajev, Boriss; Rauhala, Pekka; Kalso, Eija; Pertovaara, Antti.
In: Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol. 124, No. 3, 2020, p. 790-801.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Neurophysiological response properties of medullary pain-control neurons following chronic treatment with morphine or oxycodone
T2 - Modulation by acute ketamine
AU - Viisanen, Hanna
AU - Lilius, Tuomas O.
AU - Sagalajev, Boriss
AU - Rauhala, Pekka
AU - Kalso, Eija
AU - Pertovaara, Antti
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Descending facilitatory circuitry that involves the rostroventromedial medulla (RVM) exerts a significant role in the development of antinociceptive tolerance and hyperalgesia following chronic morphine treatment. The role of the RVM in the development of antinociceptive tolerance to oxycodone, another clinically used strong opioid, is not yet known. Ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, attenuates opioid antinociceptive tolerance, but its effect on RVM cell discharge in opioid-tolerant animals is not known. Here, we compared chronic effects of morphine and oxycodone on the discharge properties of RVM cells and attempted to attenuate chronic treatment-induced changes with ketamine. Parallel recordings of RVM cell discharge and limb withdrawal response were performed under light pentobarbital anesthesia in male rats following sustained systemic treatment with morphine or oxycodone at equianalgesic doses. Ongoing activity and the response to noxious heat and pinch were determined in pronociceptive RVM ON-cells and antinociceptive OFF-cells on the sixth treatment day. Proportions of RVM cell types were not changed. Chronic oxycodone induced antinociceptive tolerance both in limb withdrawal and RVM cell activity. Chronic morphine induced antinociceptive tolerance in limb withdrawal that was accompanied by pronociceptive heat response changes in RVM ON- and OFF-cells. A behaviorally subantinociceptive dose of acute ketamine reversed antinociceptive tolerance both to morphine and oxycodone in limb withdrawal and reversed the chronic morphine-induced pronociceptive discharge changes in RVM cells. The results indicate that an NMDA receptor-dependent descending pronociceptive circuitry involving the RVM has an important role in behavioral antinociceptive tolerance to morphine but not oxycodone. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Morphine and oxycodone are two clinically used strong opioids. Chronic treatment with oxycodone as well as morphine can lead to analgesic tolerance and paradoxical hyperalgesia. Here we show that an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-dependent pronociceptive change in discharge properties of rostroventromedial medullary neurons controlling spinal nociception has an important role in antinociceptive tolerance to morphine but not oxycodone. Interestingly, chronic oxycodone did not induce pronociceptive changes in the rostroventromedial medulla.
AB - Descending facilitatory circuitry that involves the rostroventromedial medulla (RVM) exerts a significant role in the development of antinociceptive tolerance and hyperalgesia following chronic morphine treatment. The role of the RVM in the development of antinociceptive tolerance to oxycodone, another clinically used strong opioid, is not yet known. Ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, attenuates opioid antinociceptive tolerance, but its effect on RVM cell discharge in opioid-tolerant animals is not known. Here, we compared chronic effects of morphine and oxycodone on the discharge properties of RVM cells and attempted to attenuate chronic treatment-induced changes with ketamine. Parallel recordings of RVM cell discharge and limb withdrawal response were performed under light pentobarbital anesthesia in male rats following sustained systemic treatment with morphine or oxycodone at equianalgesic doses. Ongoing activity and the response to noxious heat and pinch were determined in pronociceptive RVM ON-cells and antinociceptive OFF-cells on the sixth treatment day. Proportions of RVM cell types were not changed. Chronic oxycodone induced antinociceptive tolerance both in limb withdrawal and RVM cell activity. Chronic morphine induced antinociceptive tolerance in limb withdrawal that was accompanied by pronociceptive heat response changes in RVM ON- and OFF-cells. A behaviorally subantinociceptive dose of acute ketamine reversed antinociceptive tolerance both to morphine and oxycodone in limb withdrawal and reversed the chronic morphine-induced pronociceptive discharge changes in RVM cells. The results indicate that an NMDA receptor-dependent descending pronociceptive circuitry involving the RVM has an important role in behavioral antinociceptive tolerance to morphine but not oxycodone. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Morphine and oxycodone are two clinically used strong opioids. Chronic treatment with oxycodone as well as morphine can lead to analgesic tolerance and paradoxical hyperalgesia. Here we show that an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-dependent pronociceptive change in discharge properties of rostroventromedial medullary neurons controlling spinal nociception has an important role in antinociceptive tolerance to morphine but not oxycodone. Interestingly, chronic oxycodone did not induce pronociceptive changes in the rostroventromedial medulla.
KW - Analgesic opioid tolerance
KW - Ketamine
KW - Morphine
KW - Oxycodone
KW - Rostroventromedial medulla
U2 - 10.1152/jn.00343.2020
DO - 10.1152/jn.00343.2020
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 32755331
AN - SCOPUS:85090177659
VL - 124
SP - 790
EP - 801
JO - Journal of Neurophysiology
JF - Journal of Neurophysiology
SN - 0022-3077
IS - 3
ER -
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