Differential DNA Methylation in the PFC across the transition from acute to chronic pain
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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE146215 | GEO | 2020/05/26
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:Chronic pain is associated with persistent but reversible structural and functional changes in prefrontal cortex (PFC). This stable yet malleable plasticity implicates epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation, as a potential mediator of chronic pain-induced changes. We have previously demonstrated that chronic oral administration of the methyl donor S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) is capable of attenuating long-term peripheral neuropathic pain and affecting global PFC DNA methylation. However, there was no evidence as of yet that alterations in DNA methylation underlie SAM-mediated pain attenuation. To elucidate these mechanisms, we performed epigenome-wide analysis of mouse PFC after 4 months of SAM treatment initiated 3 months following induction of peripheral nerve injury. Over injury triggered chronic pain was associated with 4000 differentially methylated genomic regions which were enriched in intracellular signaling, cell locomotion and migration, cytoskeletal structure, and cell adhesion pathways. A third of the regions that were differentially methylated in chronic pain mice (1415 regions representing 1030 genes) were reversed by SAM treatment. 100 genes with known pain-related function were differentially methylated following nerve injury; several of which were reversed by SAM treatment. These results demonstrate that DNA methylation alterations in the PFC caused by chronic pain and reversed by SAM treatment providing at least partially a mechanism of action. These data point to the possibility of epigenetic modulators such as SAM as novel approach to treat chronic pain.
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Project description:Differential DNA Methylation in the PFC across the transition from acute to chronic pain
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Project description:Neuropathic pain is an apparently spontaneous experience triggered by abnormal physiology of the peripheral or central nervous system, which evolves with time. Neuropathic pain arising from peripheral nerve injury is characterized by a combination of spontaneous pain, hyperalgesia and allodynia. There is no evidence of this type of pain in human infants or rat pups; brachial plexus avulsion, which causes intense neuropathic pain in adults, is not painful when the injury is sustained at birth. Since infants are capable of nociception from before birth and display both acute and chronic inflammatory pain behaviour from an early neonatal age, it appears that the mechanisms underlying neuropathic pain are differentially regulated over a prolonged postnatal period. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying the differences in nerve injury between along the postnatal development and identified distinct classes of regulated genes during the injury Experiment Overall Design: We have performed a microarray analysis of the rat L4/L5 dorsal root ganglia, 7 days post spared nerve injury, a model of neuropathic pain. Genes that are regulated in adult rats displaying neuropathic behaviour were compared to those regulated in young rats (10 days old) that did not show the same neuropathic behaviour.
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Project description:Not all patients with nerve injury develop neuropathic pain. The extent of nerve damage and age at the time of injury are two of the few risk factors identified to date. In addition, preclinical studies show that neuropathic pain variance is heritable. To define such factors further, we performed a large-scale gene profiling experiment which plotted global expression changes in the rat dorsal root ganglion in three peripheral neuropathic pain models. This resulted in the discovery that the potassium channel alpha subunit KCNS1, involved in neuronal excitability, is constitutively expressed in sensory neurons and markedly downregulated following nerve injury. KCNS1 was then characterized by an unbiased network analysis as a putative pain gene, a result confirmed by single nucleotide polymorphism association studies in humans. A common amino acid changing allele, the 'valine risk allele', was significantly associated with higher pain scores in five of six independent patient cohorts assayed (total of 1359 subjects). Risk allele prevalence is high, with 18-22% of the population homozygous, and an additional 50% heterozygous. At lower levels of nerve damage (lumbar back pain with disc herniation) association with greater pain outcome in homozygote patients is P = 0.003, increasing to P = 0.0001 for higher levels of nerve injury (limb amputation). The combined P-value for pain association in all six cohorts tested is 1.14 E-08. The risk profile of this marker is additive: two copies confer the most, one intermediate and none the least risk. Relative degrees of enhanced risk vary between cohorts, but for patients with lumbar back pain, they range between 2- and 3-fold. Although work still remains to define the potential role of this protein in the pathogenic process, here we present the KCNS1 allele rs734784 as one of the first prognostic indicators of chronic pain risk. Screening for this allele could help define those individuals prone to a transition to persistent pain, and thus requiring therapeutic strategies or lifestyle changes that minimize nerve injury. Microarrays were run on mRNA extracted from adult rat L4 and L5 DRGs cells after 3,7,21,40 hours after three different sciatic nerve lesions [Spared Nerve Injury (SNI); Chronic Constriction Injury (CCI); Spinal Nerve Ligation (Ch) with Sham controls (SH)].
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