Spinal mechanisms underlying persistent pain and referred hyperalgesia in rats with an experimental ureteric stone

Journal of Neurophysiology
C RozaF Cervero

Abstract

Spinal neurons processing information from the ureter have been characterized in rats 1-4 days after the implantation of an experimental ureteric stone and compared with those of normal rats. The effects of a conditioning noxious stimulation of the ureter in the presence of the hyperalgesia evoked by the calculosis also were examined. Extracellular recordings were performed at the T12-L1 segments of the spinal cord. In rats with calculosis, more neurons expressed a ureter input (53 vs. 42% in normal rats); such cells being more likely to show background activity, at a higher rate than normals (6.6 +/- 1.2 vs. 3.2 +/- 0.9 spikes/s; mean +/- SE) and increasing with the continuing presence of the stone. The threshold pressure for a ureteric response was higher than in normal rats (79 +/- 5 vs. 54 +/- 4 mmHg) but the neurons failed to encode increasing intensities of stimulation. Thirty-five percent of the neurons with exclusively innocuous somatic receptive fields had a ureter input in rats with calculosis, whereas none were seen in normal rats. A noxious ureteric distention applied to neurons with ureter input evoked a complex mixture of increases and decreases in somatic receptive field size and/or somatic input properties marke...Continue Reading

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