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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Codeine-induced hyperalgesia and allodynia: investigating the role of glial activation |
Author: | Johnson, J. Rolan, P. Johnson, M. Bobrovskaya, L. Williams, D. Johnson, K. Tuke, J. Hutchinson, M. |
Citation: | Translational Psychiatry, 2014; 4(11):e482-1-e482-9 |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
ISSN: | 2158-3188 2158-3188 |
Statement of Responsibility: | J L Johnson, P E Rolan, M E Johnson, L Bobrovskaya, D B Williams, K Johnson, J Tuke, and M R Hutchinson |
Abstract: | Chronic morphine therapy has been associated with paradoxically increased pain. Codeine is a widely used opioid, which is metabolized to morphine to elicit analgesia. Prolonged morphine exposure exacerbates pain by activating the innate immune toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4) in the central nervous system. In silico docking simulations indicate codeine also docks to MD2, an accessory protein for TLR4, suggesting potential to induce TLR4-dependent pain facilitation. We hypothesized codeine would cause TLR4-dependent hyperalgesia/allodynia that is disparate from its opioid receptor-dependent analgesic rank potency. Hyperalgesia and allodynia were assessed using hotplate and von Frey tests at days 0, 3 and 5 in mice receiving intraperitoneal equimolar codeine (21 mg kg(-1)), morphine (20 mg kg(-1)) or saline, twice daily. This experiment was repeated in animals with prior partial nerve injury and in TLR4 null mutant mice. Interventions with interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) and glial-attenuating drug ibudilast were assessed. Analyses of glial activation markers (glial fibrillary acid protein and CD11b) in neuronal tissue were conducted at the completion of behavioural testing. Despite providing less acute analgesia (P=0.006), codeine induced similar hotplate hyperalgesia to equimolar morphine vs saline (-9.5 s, P<0.01 and -7.3 s, P<0.01, respectively), suggesting codeine does not rely upon conversion to morphine to increase pain sensitivity. This highlights the potential non-opioid receptor-dependent nature of codeine-enhanced pain sensitivity-although the involvement of other codeine metabolites cannot be ruled out. IL-1RA reversed codeine-induced hyperalgesia (P<0.001) and allodynia (P<0.001), and TLR4 knock-out protected against codeine-induced changes in pain sensitivity. Glial attenuation with ibudilast reversed codeine-induced allodynia (P<0.001), and thus could be investigated further as potential treatment for codeine-induced pain enhancement. |
Keywords: | Neuroglia Sciatic Nerve Animals Mice, Inbred BALB C Mice, Knockout Mice Hyperalgesia Morphine Codeine Analgesics, Opioid Random Allocation Behavior, Animal Pain Threshold Toll-Like Receptor 4 Interleukin 1 Receptor Antagonist Protein |
Rights: | © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited; This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License. |
DOI: | 10.1038/tp.2014.121 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP110100297 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2014.121 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 Physiology publications |
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