Analysis of gene expression changes in the spinal cord during chronic pain.
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ABSTRACT: Purpose: The goal of this study is to examine the DEGs in the spinal cord of schiatic nerve cuff model mouse using RNA-seq compared with control (sham).
Project description:To further reveal the mechanism of neuropathic pain, we simulated neuropathic pain by constructing a chronic constriction injury of the sciatic nerve (CCI) model, followed by quantitative proteomic analysis of rat spinal cord cell nuclei at 1 day, 7 days and sham-operated groups after CCI. A total of 3 samples from each group were used. A total of 5039 proteins were identified in this study, of which 4469 proteins contained quantitative information. Differential proteins were defined by a threshold of change >1.3-fold and t-test p-value <0.05.v
Project description:We produced single-cell transcriptomes from the mouse spinal cord using Drop-seq in animals modeling neuropathic pain and superficial injury (SI) controls. We used the spared nerve injury (SNI) model of neuropathic pain. ~10,000 cells from sham surgery controls and ~9,000 cells from SNI animals were sequenced. Unbiased cell clustering yielded 66 spinal cell subtypes sequenced at relatively low depth (~1200 transcripts/cell). Comparisons between SI and SNI cells were performed to investigate cell-specific differences during a neuropathic pain state.
Project description:Sensitization of spinal nociceptive circuits plays a cardinal role in neuropathic pain. This sensitization depends on new gene expression that is primarily regulated via transcriptional and translational control mechanisms. The relative roles of these mechanisms in regulating gene expression in the clinically relevant chronic phase of neuropathic pain are not well understood. Here, we show that changes in gene expression in the spinal cord during the chronic phase of neuropathic pain are substantially regulated at the translational level. Downregulating spinal translation at the chronic phase alleviated pain hypersensitivity. Cell-type-specific profiling revealed that spinal inhibitory neurons exhibited greater changes in translation after peripheral nerve injury compared to excitatory neurons. Notably, increasing translation selectively in all inhibitory neurons or parvalbumin-positive (PV + ) interneurons, but not excitatory neurons, promoted mechanical pain hypersensitivity. Furthermore, increasing translation in PV + neurons decreased their intrinsic excitability and spiking activity, whereas reducing translation in spinal PV + neurons prevented the nerve injury-induced decrease in excitability. Thus, translational control mechanisms in the spinal cord, primarily in inhibitory neurons, play a critical role in mediating neuropathic pain hypersensitivity.
Project description:Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACIs) interfere with the epigenetic process of histone acetylation and are known to have analgesic properties in models of chronic inflammatory pain. The aim of this study was to determine whether these compounds could also affect neuropathic pain. Different class I HDACIs were delivered intrathecally into rat spinal cord in models of traumatic nerve injury and antiretroviral drug-induced peripheral neuropathy (stavudine, d4T). Mechanical and thermal hypersensitivity was attenuated by 40% to 50% as a result of HDACI treatment, but only if started before any insult. The drugs globally increased histone acetylation in the spinal cord, but appeared to have no measurable effects in relevant dorsal root ganglia in this treatment paradigm, suggesting that any potential mechanism should be sought in the central nervous system. Microarray analysis of dorsal cord RNA revealed the signature of the specific compound used (MS-275) and suggested that its main effect was mediated through HDAC1. Taken together, these data support a role for histone acetylation in the emergence of neuropathic pain. n = 4, HDACi treated vs. vehicle treated. Ipsilateral dorsal spinal cord tissue after L5 spinal nerve transection, DRG tissue was run in a separate Affymetrix experiment.
Project description:Astrocytes in the spinal cord dorsal horn (SDH) play a pivotal role in synaptic transmission and neuropathic pain. However, the precise classification of SDH astrocytes in health and disease remains elusive. Here we reveal Gpr37l1 as a marker and functional regulator of spinal astrocytes. Through single-nucleus RNA sequencing, we identified Gpr37l1 as a selective GPCR marker for spinal cord astrocytes. Notably, SDH displayed reactive astrocyte phenotypes and exacerbated neuropathic pain following nerve injury combined with Gpr37l1 deficiency. In naïve animals, GPR37L1 knockdown in SDH astrocytes induces astrogliosis and pain hypersensitivity, while Gpr37l1-/- mice fail to recover from neuropathic pain. GPR37L1 activation by maresin-1 increased astrocyte GLT-1 activity and reduced spinal EPSCs and neuropathic pain. Selective overexpression of Gpr37l1 in SDH astrocytes reversed neuropathic pain and astrogliosis after nerve injury. Our findings illuminate astrocyte GPR37l1 as an essential negative regulator of pain, which protects neuropathic pain through astrocyte signaling in SDH.
Project description:To investigate the alleviating effect of paeoniflorin-liquiritin combination on neuropathic pain, we performed gene expression profiling analysis using data obtained from RNA-seq of spinal cord in spared nerve injury rats
Project description:Expression profiling of L4 and L5 Dorsal Root Ganglion (DRG) in the spinal nerve ligation model of neuropathic pain. The goal of the study was to identify genes involved in neuropathic pain This series of samples comprises of contralateral and ipsilateral L4 and L5 DRG tissue collected 4 weeks after rats underwent a L5 spinal nerve ligation (SNL) or a sham operation with no L5 spinal nerve ligation. This defines 8 groups (i) contralateral L4 DRG from the sham cohort (n=5), (ii) ipsilateral L4 DRG from sham cohort (n=5), (iii) contralateral L4 DRG from SNL cohort (n=5), (iv) ipsilateral L4 DRG from the SNL chort (n=5), (v) contralateral L5 DRG from the sham cohort (n=5), (vi) ipsilateral L5 DRG from sham cohort (n=5), (vii) contralateral L5 DRG from SNL cohort (n=5), (viii) ipsilateral L5 DRG from the SNL cohort (n=5)
Project description:LncRNAs played a crucial role in the cell growth, development and some diseases relating to central nerve system.This study suggest that with regulating the LncRNAs expression level we might design novel therapy for spinalcord injury. In this dataset, we profiled the expression pattern of LncRNAs by microarray method after spinal cord injury (SCI). Through Gene ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes enrichment analysis seek LncRNAs potential function in the repair of spinal cord injury. Fifteen samples were analyzed. In these sample, we divided into five groups (sham operation, 1 day post-injured, 3 days post-injured, 1 week post-injued and 3 weeks post-injured) and each group contained three mice.After RNA extraction,RNA form mice in the same group were mixed by equal mass for the preparation of microarray.Compared with spinal cord without injury, the differential expression level of LncRNAs had a few changes at 1day post-injury, reached the peak at 1 week after SCI, and subsequently declined until 3 weeks post-injury. Genes with an FDR≤0.05 and a fold-change ≥2 were selected. Subsequently we analysis the significant differential expression genes.
Project description:Adult zebrafish have the ability to recover from spinal cord injury and exhibit re-growth of descending axons from the brainstem to the spinal cord. We performed gene expression analysis using microarray to find damage-induced genes after spinal cord injury, which shows that Sox11b mRNA is up-regulated at 11 days after injury. However, the functional relevance of Sox11b for regeneration is not known. Here, we report that the up-regulation of Sox11b mRNA after spinal cord injury is mainly localized in ependymal cells lining the central canal and in newly differentiating neuronal precursors or immature neurons. Using an in vivo morpholino-based gene knockout approach, we demonstrate that Sox11b is essential for locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury. In the injured spinal cord, expression of the neural stem cell associated gene, Nestin, and the proneural gene Ascl1a (Mash1a), which are involved in the self-renewal and cell fate specification of endogenous neural stem cells, respectively, is regulated by Sox11b. Our data indicate that Sox11b promotes neuronal determination of endogenous stem cells and regenerative neurogenesis after spinal cord injury in the adult zebrafish. Enhancing Sox11b expression to promote proliferation and neurogenic determination of endogenous neural stem cells after injury may be a promising strategy in restorative therapy after spinal cord injury in mammals. Spinal cord injury or control sham injury was performed on adult zebrafish. After 4, 12, or 264 hrs, a 5 mm segment of spinal cord was dissected and processed (as a pool from 5 animals) in three replicate groups for each time point and treatment.
Project description:To identify regulators of spinal cord regeneration, we performed RNA sequencing of zebrafish spinal cord at 1 week after sham injury and after transection.