Chronic stress influences nociceptive sensitivity of female rats in an estrous cycle-dependent manner.
Stress
; 23(4): 386-392, 2020 07.
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Exposure to chronic stress can influence nociception and further induce hyperalgesia. Whether stress modulation of pain in female animals occurs in an estrous cycle-specific manner is still unclear. We profiled the changes in nociception (thermal, mechanical, formalin-evoked acute and inflammatory pain) of female Sprague-Dawley rats after treatment with chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) and investigated whether these changes occur in an estrous cycle-dependent manner. The results showed that CUMS female rats exhibited a lower mechanical withdrawal threshold in proestrus and estrus, a longer formalin-evoked licking time in metestrus and diestrus, but no changes in the latency time on the tail-flick test. The present study findings suggest that chronic stress induces mechanical and formalin-evoked acute hyperalgesia of female rats in an estrous cycle-dependent manner.SUMMARYOur studies showed that chronic stress increased nociceptive sensitivity of female rats. Furthermore females had different stress-induced pain responses in different estrous phases: mechanical hyperalgesia in proestrus and estrus, formalin-evoked acute hyperalgesia in metestrus and diestrus.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Estrés Psicológico
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Nocicepción
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Animals
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En
Revista:
Stress
Asunto de la revista:
NEUROLOGIA
Año:
2020
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Article
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido