Background: Chronic pain models are commonly defined as either nerve-injury or inflammation models, but recent work suggests inflammatory processes are important in nerve injury-induced pain.
Methods: In the rat spinal nerve ligation model, the authors examined effects of systemic corticosteroid triamcinolone acetonide (TA) on the cytokine protein profile and sympathetic sprouting in the axotomized sensory ganglia, excitability of sensory neurons, and mechanical sensitivity.
Results: By postoperative day 3, marked increases (5- to 16-fold) in monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, growth-related oncogene (GRO/KC or CXCL1), and interleukin (IL)-6 were observed, whereas IL-4 and IL-2 levels fell more than fourfold. The increased cytokines and number of sympathetic basket formations in the sensory ganglia were reduced toward normal values by TA given starting at the time of injury. Interleukin-4 and IL-2 levels were not restored by TA. Systemic TA also reduced the firing rate and incidence of bursting activity, but not the overall incidence of spontaneous activity, in large- and medium-sized neurons. Mechanical hypersensitivity on postoperative day 3 was reduced by TA, and some effect could still be observed 4 days after cessation of TA. However, starting TA at day 7 was ineffective. 相似文献
Summary In order to study the immune function of patients on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD), we assayed NK cell cytotoxicity against
K562 targets in 40 patients on MHD, and the production of IL-2 and IFN in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) after PHA
stimulation, in contrast to those in normal controls. The results showed that NK cell activity and IL-2 and IFN levels were
markedly lower in the patients than in the controls. Afeter a single dialysis, NK cell activity as well as IL-2 and IFN levels
were elevated to different extent. But there was no significant change in patients after long-term dialysis. There was a positive
correlation between the NK cell activity and IL-2 and IFN activity in the controls, but no such correlation was found in the
patients on MHD. There was a positive correlation between the NK cell activity and IL-2 activity in patients after dialysis,
suggesting that immune function were impaired in the patients on MHD, with a decline in the activity of NK cell and IL-2 and
IFN, and a disorder of immune regulation cycle. These abnormal immune impairments in the patients could be partly corrected
by hemodialysis. However, long-term hemodialysis is not much helpful in the improvement of patient’s immune function. 相似文献