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Intrathecal injection of ETAR antagonist alleviates pain in rats with bone cancer pain and its effect on ERK pathway |
HE Yuanshan1, SU Hong2, YI Guoen3, ZHANG Min4, XU Peng4, LI Zeqing5 |
1. Department of Orthopedics, Xining Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xining 810000, China; 2. Department of General Surgery, the Fifth People’s Hospital of Qinghai Province, Xining 810000, China; 3. Emergency Department, Xining First People’s Hospital, Xining 810000, China; 4. Department of Orthopaedics, No. 941 Hospital of Joint Service Support Force of PLA, Xining 810007, China; 5. Department of Orthopedics, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Xining, Qinghai, 810000 |
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Abstract Objective To observe the extent to which intrathecal injection of endothelin A receptor (ETAR) antagonist alleviates the pain of bone cancer pain (BCP) rats and the effect on extracellular regulatory protein kinase (ERK) pathway.Methods Sixty rats were selected for intrathecal catheterization and randomly divided into the sham operation group, sham operation + ETAR antagonist (sham+BQ123) group, bone cancer pain (BCP) group, and bone cancer pain + ETAR antagonist (BCP+BQ123) group. The BCP group and BCP+BQ123 group were inoculated with Walker256 cells in the bone marrow cavity of the distal femur to establish a BCP rat model. On the 14th day of modeling, 14 rats in the BCP+BQ123 group and sham + BQ123 group were injected with 7 μl of BQ123 intrathecally while 13 rats in the BCP group and 14 rats in the sham group were injected intrathecally with the same amount of normal saline. Immediately before intrathecal injection and 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0 hours after injection, the pain behavior of rats in each group was evaluated in terms of the mechanical paw withdrawal threshold (PWT) and the number of spontaneous flinches (NSF). After the last assessment of pain behavior, the severity of bone destruction in each group was assessed via imaging. The expressions of endothelin 1 (ET1), ETAR, ERK1/2 and p-ERK1/2 were detected by RT-qPCR and Western blot.Results Compared with the sham group and sham + BQ123 group, PWT decreased while NSF increased before injection in the BCP group and BCP + BQ123 group (P<0.05). At T0.5-3.0 h after intrathecal injection, the PWT and NSF of the BCP group remained unchanged, while the PWT of the BCP + BQ123 group increased before it decreased, while the NSF decreased before it increased. Both the PWT and NSF reached the maximum and minimum at 1.5 hours, and returned to the pre-injection level at 3.0 hours. Tibia bone X-ray showed that tibia bone density was uniform in the sham group and sham + BQ123 group, and there was no loss of the bone cortex. BCP group suffered extensive bone destruction and severe bone cortical defects 14 days after injection. In the BCP + BQ123 group, there were small lesions of bone destruction in the distal femur, and some cortical defects. Compared with the sham group and sham + BQ123 group, the relative expressions of ET1, ETAR mRNA and protein and p-ERK1/2 protein in the spinal cord of the BCP group and BCP + BQ123 group were increased, but were lower in the BCP + BQ123 group than in the BCP group (P<0.05).Conclusions The pain response of BCP is related to spinal cord ET-1 and ETAR. Intrathecal injection of ETAR antagonist can effectively improve the pain response of BCP rats, possibly by inhibiting the ERK pathway of the spinal cord.
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Received: 15 October 2020
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